Skydiving companies have done well out of Chinese tourists in recent years, but as of a week ago, that market has dried up. Tourism New Zealand may look to North Americans and Aussie skiers to make up for sharp plunge in Chinese visitors. A week after New Zealand stopped travellers from China to help prevent spread of the coronavirus, TNZ is tweaking its overseas marketing to try and regain a lot of lost ground. READ MORE:* Coronavirus: hard hit hospitality businesses suggest delaying minimum wage rise*Close to $100 million hole in tourism earnings from Chinese travel ban* Cancellations grow as Chinese travel restrictions over virus start to hit NZ tourism* Coronavirus: New Zealand blocks travellers coming from ChinaSUPPLIED Smile Li with her father Li Yang were among the more than 400,000 Chinese who visited New Zealand last year. One of the frustrations was the time lag in getting accurate data to see how travel trends were changing.

Source: Stuff February 10, 2020 03:11 UTC