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Chateau Tongariro: DoC spends $4.5m maintaining shuttered hotel

From NZ Herald · () English

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  • New Zealand’s Department of Conservation has spent more than $4.5 million maintaining Chateau Tongariro since the hotel closed in early 2023.
  • Power and gas costs accounted for more than $1.4 million while the site remained closed to the public.

The Department of Conservation has spent more than $4.5 million maintaining Chateau Tongariro since the hotel closed in early 2023.

More than $1.4 million of that spending went on power and gas while the site remained closed to the public.

The hotel, which DoC took responsibility for after its closure, remains in limbo.

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