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Backpacker bookings good but staff shortages and fewer beds challenging, operators say

Backpacker bookings are looking healthy but the industry is worried it is on the back foot following multiple closures and ongoing staffing shortages.

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Backpacker bookings good but staff shortages and fewer beds challenging, operators say

Backpacker bookings good but staff shortages and fewer beds challenging, operators say
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Fingers crossed

Mountain Scene By TRACEY ROXBURGH regarding working holiday and supplementary seasonal employer (SSE) visas. While details are scant, Mountain Scene understands INZ may announce SSE visa holders can move to working holiday visas, and it may also look to extend working holiday visas to 12 months, from six. NZ Backpacker Youth and Adventure Tourism Association (BYATA) board member Brett Duncan says if that’s true, the association a lobby group representing the backpacker and adventure travel industry, ‘‘so, half of Queenstown’’ would ‘‘welcome that’’. But, he says, that’s not going far enough to enable businesses in the Whakatipu and beyond to recover from the economic impacts brought on by Covid.

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