iStock And there had been no noticeable influx since it opened, he said. The business would get a few more people during the ski season (set to open in the coming weeks), “but it is just a few”, Norris said. They were looking ahead to the Australian school holidays in September and October, and already had summer bookings from across the ditch. “September-October, that’s when we will hopefully start to notice [the bubble] significantly,” Norris said. He had his fingers crossed that there would be fewer travel bubble pauses and visitors could book holidays with confidence. As of May 17, people could leave New Zealand as part of the Cook Islands travel bubble, after months of quarantine free arrivals to Aotearoa.