Tag: Tourism industry
Hawai’i’s Rimpac war games begin, but academic condemns them as harmful...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson
Hawai’ian academic Dr Emalani Case has condemned the 2024 Rimpac military exercise that began off the coast of Hawai’i...
NZ’s first New Caledonia evacuation flight lands in Auckland
By Maia Ingoe, RNZ News journalist
A NZ Defence Force plane carrying 50 New Zealanders evacuated from New Caledonia landed at Auckland International Airport last...
Struggling Maui residents now ‘pleading’ for tourists to return
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Locals are asking tourists to return to Maui after asking for space in the initial aftermath of the deadly...
Fiji tourism back on its feet with a fresh focus on...
By Sheryl Lal and Akansha Narayan in Nadi, Fiji
Although Fiji was unaffected by the first wave of covid-19, its tourism sector -- the lifeblood...
Border controls: Tourists may be welcomed to NZ earlier, says Skegg
RNZ News
Epidemiologist Sir David Skegg, who along with his team has been providing advice to the New Zealand government on the covid-19 response, says...
NZ’s Trans-Tasman bubble suspension hits tourism, hospitality hard again
By Harry Lock, RNZ News reporter
The tourism and hospitality sectors are disappointed but understanding of the New Zealand decision to suspend the travel bubble.
Prime...
Mixed views still over Pacific travel ‘bubbles’ but private sector has...
By Ben Bilua in Suva
Experts have challenged the value of immediate implementation of tourism or travel "bubbles", saying that it is too early to...