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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.”