Asia-Pac bubble will benefit tourism, hotels from next year - Colliers

Asia-Pac bubble will benefit tourism, hotels from next year - Colliers
Brent Melville
A trans-Tasman and Pacific bubble is likely to be followed by bilateral travel agreements between New Zealand and the Southeast Asian seaboard, Colliers International says. Colliers' national director of hotels, Dean Humphries, said countries including Hong Kong, South Korea, China and Taiwan would be lining up to join an expanding tourism “bubble,” provided they could show they have contained the virus at manageable levels. “As a result, New Zealand has a unique opportunity to be an ideal ‘early adopter’ for many tourism-focused initiati...

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