Invercargill travel agent Tony Laker is optimistic his business, one of the hardest hit in New Zealand by the Covid-19 pandemic, will soon get cranking again. One of New Zealand’s worst affected businesses from the Covid-19 pandemic can see some light ahead after 18 months operating on just five per cent of pre-Covid income. Since the borders were closed in March 2020, Tony and Tracey Laker’s Invercargill travel agency has survived largely on domestic travel bookings instead of international tour packages. But he said he didn’t let the cancer or the business stress him, instead seeing them as challenges. “I would probably be in a mental home by now if I was stressed, with the business and the cancer going on.

Source: Stuff September 04, 2021 23:37 UTC