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Kate Hawkesby: If you were an overseas tourist, would you really come to NZ?
In another case of theory versus reality, Tourism Minister Stuart Nash is telling us we’re open as a country, but tourism groups and others will tell you – we’re not really.
The thing holding us up? The Covid testing regime our government insists on keeping in place.
The problem with it is twofold.
One, we are one of the few countries left in the world still doing this, and two, it’s bureaucratically heavy and administratively cumbersome. Travel is logistically challenging enough, we don’t need additional barriers and hoops to jump through. I don’t know of anyone who has travelled recently…
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