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Covid-19: West Coast glacier towns struggling without international visitors

08:18 am on 16 November 2021

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While the loss of international visitors to West Coast glacier towns has caused job cuts, businesses to close and people to leave, further up the Coast, the picture is a bit rosier.

MarketView figures show visitors to  the Buller District brought in $43 million for the year ending September - up from $36 million on the year before .

Visitor dollars are also up about 15 percent to $21.1 million for Westport and from five to seven-point-two million for Reefton.

Tess Brunton has more.