The coronavirus pandemic has left Queenstown — usually one of New Zealand's most iconic tourist attractions — struggling. 'It's usually quiet for us in the winter,' says Betty Perkins, who runs boat tours of Queenstown's lake. 'But not this quiet.'
According to Queenstown NZ, the organization responsible for marketing the area, about 55% of the town's GDP comes from tourism, and government statistics show the Queenstown-Lakes district hasBut the coronavirus pandemic has changed that. Some cafes and souvenir shops around the lake are closed. Ski operators, who usually start to open in early June, have delayed the start of their season.
Perkins is one of the lucky ones -- she owns her own business, and they have few staff and little overhead, meaning they haven't had to lay anyone off. Still, she estimates that her business' income has dropped 70% compared with normal.Air New Zealand has unveiled its new prototype sleep pods."Economy Skynest" will consist of six full-length lie-flat sleep pods in the Economy cabin.
"There's nothing I can do," says Wang, who hails from China but has permanent residency in New Zealand."Finding a job is so hard. So I just keep going." of Queenstown's residents at the last Census were born overseas, although it isn't clear how many are permanent residents.A worker in a Queenstown souvenir shop who arrived from China six months ago and who did not give her name for fear of reprisal says that she was about to be made redundant. If she can't find another job, she may have to return to China, she says.
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