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Mountain Scene
April 10, 2021
By PHILIP CHANDLER
Holidaymakers not used to using a travel agent to book a flight across the Tasman are being urged to think again.
Would-be travellers taking advantage of the long-awaited trans-Tasman bubble when it opens April 19 are being advised their plans may have to alter if there’s a Covid outbreak.
A case of ‘flyer beware’, in other words.
Two Queenstown travel agents warn those doing their own online bookings could struggle to change their flight if there’s a Covid disruption.
‘‘By yourself you’ll struggle to get another flight because you are trying to get through to the airline at the same time as absolutely everyone is,’’ Tori Keating says.
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Queenstown tourism company Ziptrek offered eco-elopements as part of a suite of new products targeting New Zealanders after international borders were closed.
Trent Yeo is exhausted. His Queenstown zipline business – Ziptrek Eco Tours – has been stripped of its international visitors, and he is fighting to keep it going. But these are the times in which entrepreneurs thrive, and it is also giving him new energy. “It is exhausting, making these changes all the time. It’s not easy, but we’re more capable than we’ve ever been at reinventing what our businesses could and should look like. “My view is that if you’re not trying something, you’re going to eventually fail.”