Weep fellow Kiwis, our glorious smug hermit kingdom is over – here comes hyper tourism, migrant worker exploitation & International Student scams
Covid 19: NZ’s border fully reopens allowing students, cruise ships to return
At midnight tonight New Zealand’s border will finally be fully open to all visitors – providing a much-needed economic boost to the education and tourism sectors with the return of international students and cruise ships.
After two years and four months of the Covid-19 border restrictions, the Government will put in place the final step of its “reconnecting plan”, enabling visitors from non-visa waiver countries to apply for a visa to enter New Zealand.
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!
Weep dear Kiwi at the neoliberal free market plague sweeping back in, weep at our Fortress NZ protection ripped away from us at a time when external shockwaves become the norm, weep that our quality of life plunges again.
Weep of course right up until the next variant gets loose and then the public will be screaming to shut MIQ in a never ending yo-yoing of panic.
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.
The economic pressures and stresses are building with speed now, this will simply add fuel to those drivers.
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You’re not wrong there @ FTT with a lot of hospitality and tourism businesses struggling to find staff and a lot of the Iwi/Tribal owned enterprises are still in covid induced hibernation or have simply closed shop, Rainbow Springs Rotorua for example. Also the repercussions from the Whakarari/White Island tragedy yet to be played out in the courts, I think a lot of cruise ship companies will be reluctant to recommend on shore activities for there passengers without signing indemnity waivers that would take a legal sleuth to go through, which will only leave a few sedentary activities for cooped up passengers to participate in.
Having said that have noticed a lot of Chinese travellers out and about in the last couple of weeks and from what I’ve heard is that they are city dwelling refugees escaping the prospect of more government imposed lockdowns.
I don’t think Bomber will have to worry to much about hyper tourism as word will get out that the hobbits of AO/NZ are still a bit sleepy
Let’s not forget the government hypocrisy of strangling farmers over greenhouse emissions -with some very sketchy science -and replacing them with pine trees, while actively campaigning overseas for more jet plane loads – with very good science showing their massive emissions-of foreign tourists to come here.
When the media keeps repeating we are open for business, more like we are open for Covid. With all the Covid coming in and new variants mutating looks like we will be wearing masks for long time.
Yeah, masks that don’t even do anything. Corona viruses (including this one) are small viruses that pass through every cloth mask that isn’t an N95 as if you weren’t wearing one.
Yet wearing a masks at work protected me and others from my work colleague who just had Covid and it seems to be working (in lower death rates and case numbers) in some of the Asian countries like Singapore, Taiwan and Japan.
i reckon in about 5 years we will have thriving shanty towns…
Hyper tourism, international students, and immigrant labour is the exact opposite of what is required right now.
This toxic trifecta amplifies our already chronic societal problems.
Environmental degradation, kills higher wages and better conditions for New Zealanders, privatisation of our schools by stealth, climate change, less training and employment opportunities for New Zealanders, the ability for our infrastructure to cope particularly health care, house prices/rent/availability, supply chain issues, population ect ect ect……..
Yeah but we already have thriving shanty towns look at Westport cheapest houses.