The sun is setting on unsustainable long-haul, short-stay tourism — regional travel bubbles are the future
- Written by James Higham, Professor of Tourism, University of Otago
www.shutterstock.comUnprecedented border closures and the domestic lockdown have paralysed New Zealand’s $40.9 billion a year tourism industry. In the process, the vulnerability of the sector to external shocks and the tenuous nature of tourism employment have been exposed.
While New Zealand’s handling of the pandemic has been hailed...
