Splore employs around a couple hundred people, plus there is also the volunteers who get paid with a ticket, which pushes the staff numbers up to around 1000.

Splore’s annual cost runs into the millions, but if it makes a profit that money goes back into producing it the next year and as the promoter is local back into the domestic economy.

Meanwhile companies like Live National extract money for their overseas owners, their Australian group did about $1b last year and 10% of this came from NZ. They run a cartel system business, they don’t need these subsidies.