A seven-day self-isolate isolation requirement for arrivals to New Zealand when borders open next year has been labelled “nonsense” and “excessive” by tourism industry leaders. What we can’t work with is that international visitors have to undergo a form of self-isolation. This is nonsense.”If the Government pursued a self-isolation mandate for international visitors, New Zealand would not have an international tourism recovery of any kind, she said. “New Zealand is open, but it’s not open properly.”New Zealand tourism would not sell in 2022 and tourists would go somewhere else, like Australia, “where they are rolling the welcome mat out”, she said. The seven-day self-isolation period would be fine for people who could work from home but not for visitors, she said.

Source: Stuff November 25, 2021 00:12 UTC