[Negitivefrags]

The plan is basically that the tourism sector takes a beating and nobody is allowed to come to NZ without a 2 week quarantine. Possibly for years.

Under the theory that NZ citizens can’t go anywhere else, supposedly if all the people who would have gone overseas instead travel internally then it should recover up to 60%. If Australia can get thier shit together then it’s apparently 95%.

I guess it’s just a question of priorities. Most of the NZ population is feeling pretty good about life being normal and are willing to pitch the tourism sector into the fire to that end.

[roca]

NZ tourism spending (excluding international airfares) was ~60% domestic before COVID19. (Yes I know it sounds high, but that's the number.) Shifting outbound tourism to domestic will boost domestic considerably higher than that even without Australia.