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NZ tourism can use the disruption of COVID-19 to drive sustainable change — and be more competitive

  • Written by James Higham, Professor of Tourism, University of Otago
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The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s second tourism report urges the government to take advantage of the disruption caused by COVID-19 to transform the tourism industry.

Titled “Not 100% – but four steps closer to sustainable tourism”, it builds on commissoner Simon Upton’s 2019...

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