NZ tourism sector needs international visitors to ‘thrive’
Before Covid-19, tourism was New Zealand’s largest export, generating $41 billion for the New Zealand economy in 2019 alone. When the virus arrived and New Zealand shut down, that dropped to $26 billion by 2021.
Before Covid, we had 4million tourists per year! There are only 5 million of us! Our country has been over run by hyper tourism and if you ask any of those greedy pricks how many is too many – there is no answer!
The hyper tourism industry would welcome 20 million a year if they could get away with it!
The hyper tourism industry exploits us the domestic citizen, and then tells us that our exploitation is important for the economy!
This country has two secrets to our ‘economic growth’ – steal land off Māori and never pay it back and open the floodgates to cheap lazy immigration to create the sense of growth with none of the planned building of infrastructure to cope with that mass immigration.
We have learned nothing from Covid and are rapidly trying to recreate our low wage economy again.
Watching the hyper tourism industry that has abused us so badly now beg us is joy.
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Which is an acceptable argument IF you have another industry in the wings capable of earning 20-odd Billion.
If you don’t it is at best a pyrrhic victory at worst economic self mutilation.
Sri Lanka, South Africa, Zimbabwe thought they knew best. We might add New Zimbabwe to that list if we continue on the current trajectory.
I may be wrong but the overarching impression I have of this government is NOT to return to hyper tourism or cheap migrant labour exploitation and it appears genuine. I mean, we propped up our public transport systems exploiting migrant workers because psuedo slavery was the only option left to make it work!
Like anything cheap, it comes at a far greater hidden cost!
So well done Labour! Stick with it.
Like Frank said, if not tourism then what?
We need to pay the bills and unless we start selling our coal and other mineral resources we’ve got what? Milk and, er, milk?
Milk *powder* dear Yeti, milk powder.
Couldn’t agree more.
Tourism – how should ours be structured if to be? Gordon Campbell makes cogent points.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2208/S00034/on-why-big-spenders-are-not-our-tourism-salvation.htm
I am against masses of poor tourists – Venice had to restrict the numbers of young tourists the place abounded with. But I am all for young people on short working holidays who return home – my local Italian restaurant has young people from all over – very pleasant. And the woofers working for bread and board and some money must have space in the immigration portals – such an excellent way for young people to learn about the world.
Then there are the seasonal ones that followed winter’s snow around the world, they were necessary for that business here, and they like our outdoor life – what next for them? Can we have a properly structured system that is run well efficiently and without too much whim, or charging high and delivering low; Immigration gets too big for its boots in every country I think, petty tyrants with power.
We are a little overbalanced in their favour at present and again most are very pleasant and my friends from the fish and chip shop have sold to Chinese people and I will give them some free lemons to welcome their debut. Building good relations. I will probably go to a ceremony connected with local Maori on Sunday, and get some Turkish ishkender on the way home, so some of my good acquaintances are from abroad. But enough for now.
I feel that Labour ministers have to have a meeting and vow to each other that they are going to say no or yes to certain practices that will make change for the better, that they would like to usher onward for the good of the country. That would be very enhancing for the Party at this stage with opportunity for things to start happening before the election, thus regaining some of their lost credibility.
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