“Unfortunately, we aren’t in a position to do the same for our jointly-owned businesses, which possibly still wouldn’t break even without the subsidy.” “Applying for the wage subsidy was the right move at the time due to the significant decline in revenue for our honey and tourism businesses. “We wanted to keep staff in employment for as long as possible and this funding helped us do that.”
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Ngāi Tahu Holdings chief executive Mike Pohio says Covid-19 caused an unprecented decline to revenue for tourism businesses. Pohio said the worldwide pandemic was “devastating”, especially for tourism.
Home is where the heartland is
30 Dec, 2020 12:02 PM
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Operating for thirty years, Franz Josef Glacier Guides allows visitors to access remote terrain that would normally only be accessible to experience mountaineers.
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In four decades as a travel writer and several more years as a living, breathing, wandering Kiwi, I’ve seen just about every square inch of Aotearoa. But it’s only in the past few months I’ve encountered two special places for the first time. By Ewan McDonald
They re at either end of the country – the impossibly beautiful white-sand beaches of Karikari Peninsula and the impossibly beautiful deep-green waters, forests and mountains of Te Wahi Pounamou, our World Heritage Area in the Deep South.