{"id":20524,"date":"2020-07-14T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/14\/new-zealand-and-cook-islands-work-on-travel-bridge-to-beat-tourism-slump"},"modified":"2020-07-14T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T03:59:00","slug":"new-zealand-and-cook-islands-work-on-travel-bridge-to-beat-tourism-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20524","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand and Cook Islands work on &#8216;travel bridge&#8217; to beat tourism slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cook Islands\u2019 deputy prime minister says archipelago ready to accept tourists next week but Ardern says no dates have been set<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s first travel bubble could be on its way after the Cook Islands\u2019 deputy prime minister said his country was ready to welcome tourist flights as early as next week.<\/p>\n<p>The Cook Islands is a self-governing archipelago in the Pacific, in \u201cfree association\u201d with New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/14\/new-zealand-and-cook-islands-work-on-travel-bridge-to-beat-tourism-slump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cook Islands\u2019 deputy prime minister says archipelago ready to accept tourists next week but Ardern says no dates have been setCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand\u2019s first travel bubble could be on its way after the Co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,855,1069,56,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cook-islands","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20525,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20524\/revisions\/20525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}