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Isolated from the outside world since March 2020, a nation reliant on international tourism for 75 per cent of its GDP (30,000 Australians and 115,000 New Zealanders visited annually, pre-COVID-19) was forced to return to traditional Polynesian ways of living.
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Covid 19 coronavirus Cook Islands travel bubble: Travel agent sees 4000% surge in searches
4 May, 2021 12:38 AM
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New Zealand s quarantine-free travel bubble with the Cook Islands will begin on May 17.
Kiwis are already rushing to snap up holiday packages and flights to the Cook Islands after a much-anticipated travel bubble was officially announced.
Travel group Flight Centre has recorded a huge surge of interest on its website overnight - while resorts in Rarotonga reporting the phones going crazy since the announcement.
Although figures for bookings via Flight Centre would not be known until later, a spokeswoman confirmed the company had seen a massive jump on its site overnight.