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Queenstown Lakes District mayor Jim Boult with MP Stuart Nash, during Nash s first visit to Queenstown as Tourism Minister in November 2020. Boult has been in discussions with Nash since last year and says the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is tougher on businesses far south from Auckland.
Southern tourism bosses say they desperately need a date for when the trans-Tasman travel bubble will be a reality, so they can attempt to keep their businesses going. Tourism Minister Stuart Nash will be in Southland on Thursday, and business leaders say they need a date and more information about when boarders might re-open.
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Queenstown Airport Corporation s (QAC) statement of intent will go before the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) on Thursday.
More than two million passengers went through the airport for the first time in 2018, and it is expecting to exceed it again in 2023.
Plans in 2018 to allow double the number of flights in and out of the airport by 2045 outraged locals and led to the proposal being scrapped.
Similarly, talks about expanding the services at Wānaka Airport were ditched after blowback from the community.
In last year s statement of intent, the airport promised not to increase the number of aircraft into Queenstown or to develop Wānaka Airport before July 2023.
Queenstown Airport expects return to pre-Covid levels by 2024 Wednesday, March 17, 2021 Tim Brown for RNZ
Queenstown Airport is forecasting a return to pre-pandemic passenger numbers by 2024.
Queenstown Airport Corporation s (QAC) statement of intent will go before the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) on Thursday.
More than two million passengers went through the airport for the first time in 2018, and it is expecting to exceed it again in 2023.
Plans in 2018 to allow double the number of flights in and out of the airport by 2045 outraged locals and led to the proposal being scrapped.
Similarly, talks about expanding the services at Wanaka Airport were ditched after blowback from the community.
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