Queenstown’s Matt Wong flying high

Queenstown’s Matt Wong flying high
Queenstown local Matt Wong went against the grain in buying iFLY in the middle of a pandemic.
Paul McBeth
Who’d launch a new tourism operation in the heavily saturated Queenstown market, and then go on to mount a management buy-out when a global pandemic wiped out 80% of its customers?Twenty-year industry veteran and Queenstown local Matt Wong, that’s who.He’s been running the indoor wind tunnel iFLY on the walk up to the Skyline gondola since it opened in August 2018, and this month he bought it from its American owners – though he’s keeping mum on how much it set him back.“If you weren’t an opportunist an...

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