FILE PHOTO: A general view of Queenstown, New Zealand, September 14, 2011. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's tourism industry is suffering, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Friday as she launched the ski season in the absence of foreign visitors, who are being kept out to keep the novel coronavirus at bay.
Ardern has urged New Zealanders to travel at home and is considering more holidays to get people out, but operators say they won't make up for the missing foreigners who bring about half of the industry's NZ$16.1 billion (US$10.34 billion) annual income.
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