Snow business: Southern Lakes still on track for record ski season

Snow business: Southern Lakes still on track for record ski season
Calm before the storm: Cardrona on opening day. (Image: Jake Rudd)
Brent Melville
The snow has been slow to come but Queenstown-Lakes is still groaning under the weight of surging winter tourists.That starts at Queenstown Airport’s arrivals gate, which last month welcomed 163,152 arrivals, of which almost a third, 50,993, came from Australia. That’s at 116% of June 2019 levels for trans-Tasman flights, with a fifth more flights than pre-covid, at 438 landings or almost 15 international flights a day.Translating that to skiers, NZSki chief executive Paul Anderson said its two Southern Lakes hills, Remarkables...

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