{"id":22961,"date":"2020-09-22T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T05:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/22\/bring-it-on-new-zealand-tourist-hotspots-bank-on-holidays-to-ease-covid-pressures"},"modified":"2020-09-22T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T05:44:17","slug":"bring-it-on-new-zealand-tourist-hotspots-bank-on-holidays-to-ease-covid-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22961","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bring it on&#8217;: New Zealand tourist hotspots bank on holidays to ease Covid pressures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regional mayors hope the easing of restrictions means boom time for domestic tourism<\/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>Covid-19 restrictions have been dropped and school\u2019s almost out for a fortnight \u2013 to the delight of mayors in New Zealand\u2019s tourism hotspots, where there are hopes the holidays will boost coffers in the struggling tourism sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBring it on, bring it on,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/morningreport\/audio\/2018765053\/covid-19-are-aucklanders-tourism-dollars-welcome-in-the-regions\">said<\/a> David Trewavas, the mayor of Taup\u014d district \u2013 an area in the central North Island that is home to some of the country\u2019s most famed skiing and hiking. \u201cYou can even have a mass gathering down here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/22\/bring-it-on-new-zealand-tourist-hotspots-bank-on-holidays-to-ease-covid-pressures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional mayors hope the easing of restrictions means boom time for domestic tourismCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCovid-19 restrictions have been dropped and school\u2019s almost out for a fortnight \u2013 to the delight of mayors i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[41,1069,268,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22961","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22962,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22961\/revisions\/22962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}