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COVID-19's impact on NZ Tourism

22:19 pm on 10 December 2021

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Statistics NZ has today provided the first real measure of COVID-19's impact on Tourism. A third of New Zealand tourism jobs have disappeared in the first year of COVID-19, 25% of owner operators have been wiped out and the tourism sector has shrunk to the size it was 15 years ago. Chief Executive of Tourism Industry Aotearoa Chris Roberts explains how they are coping.

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