20 Mar 2023

Around the Motu - Peter Newport

From Nine To Noon, 10:50 am on 20 March 2023

Queenstown's economy and the tourism industry have been based for years on a migrant workforce, but Peter says that post covid there's a new focus on improving wages and conditions and trying to attract Kiwi workers.

He also talks to Kathryn about increasing tensions between Dunedin and the Southern Lakes as Dunedin's population is dropping but the Southern Lakes population has grown by 10% just in the past three years.

And the Queenstown Airport Corporation has had a dramatic rise in passenger numbers.

Air New Zealand plane Queenstown Airport

Photo: Crux Publishing