Letters: Tourism, self-control, Steve Braunias, borders and conversion therapy
16 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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International tourism will never again be as it was, says Tourism Minister Stuart Nash. Photo / Supplied, File
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Lost tourism
While Minister Stuart Nash s comments about the future of tourism in New Zealand may seem overly harsh, he is right in saying that tourism will not return to what it has been.
Visitors from Australia will probably be about the same level but the conditions that made possible large numbers from further afield are unlikely to return.
Many of these were young adventurers who could afford the ever-cheaper fares that competing airlines provided and there was little concern that they could get jobs back home when their trip had ended.
Letters: Democracy and fascism, border exemptions and the Cook Islands bubble
19 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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The United States of America was a flawed democracy before President Donald Trump took office. Photo / Evan Vucci, AP, File
The United States of America was a flawed democracy before President Donald Trump took office. Photo / Evan Vucci, AP, File
NZ Herald
Not all equal
Correspondent Craig Clark (NZ Herald, January 18) has commented on how even though the US is a democracy, that it almost ended up with a dictator called Donald Trump.
However, he seems to be assuming all democracies enjoy the same level of democracy. There are 75 democracies in the world, but only 22 of them are classified as full democracies and the US is not included as a full democracy.