According to the Department of Conservation, visitor numbers to Milford Sound in September and October 2020 had dropped 72 per cent from the year before. As the “gateway to Milford”, the Fiordland tourism sector had traditionally relied heavily on international tourists and while Kiwis had answered the call to back their backyards, there simply weren’t enough to fill the void. Now that summer was drawing to a close and Kiwis were going back to work, the situation was dire, Adams said. “Te Anau has fallen off the cliff in the last week,” he said. While some businesses were operating at 20 to 60 per cent less than usual over Christmas, Adams said that had dropped to an 85 to 90 per cent drop in revenue in the past week.
Margaret Gordon, a Melbourne-based Kiwi who works as a video producer for The Age, offers a snapshot of her two weeks in managed isolation at an Auckland hotel. The new Hotel Council Aotearoa, representing about half the country s 330-plus hotels, says many have barely survived summer. January should have been their busiest month with occupancies around 90 per cent, said strategic director James Doolan. Instead, with a few days of January remaining, most had only 40 to 60 per cent of their rooms occupied, and had been forced to slash about 20 per cent from their room tariffs to fill even those. That meant their overall room revenue was down about 50 per cent, but they still had to pay property-related costs like rents, rates, insurance, electricity and servicing debt.
Thursday, 21 January 2021, 8:13 am | Destination Coromandel As one of the projects funded by the Government’s Strategic Tourism Assets Protection
Programme (STAPP), Destination Coromandel today announced it is receiving applications
from local event organisers for event marketing support through its $80k Signature . More
Thursday, 24 October 2019, 2:05 pm | Destination Coromandel
The first zipline canopy tour through native Coromandel bush will take off this Labour
Weekend at Driving Creek Railway. More
Thursday, 18 January 2018, 4:17 pm | Destination Coromandel
The Coromandel tourism industry is welcoming people to return for a relaxing holiday,
to make the most of summer plans. It has been business as usual for most of the region