His excitement quickly turned to frustration, however, once he heard how overseas travellers were experiencing delays due to a raft of "impossible" systems, including travel declarations. They've arrived very wound up because the travel declarations that are required to be uploaded before they travel to New Zealand are really clunky and difficult." Now, some of these hunters were left waiting for travel declaration forms to upload, Burdon told The Country's Rowena Duncum. "They've paid US$18,000 to travel here to enjoy New Zealand and the travel declaration form's just impossible to upload." "Esplanade Travel, who we work very closely with, has not seen [anything like] this and they've been in the travel industry for 50 years.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 07, 2022 05:00 UTC