Originally Posted by
iceman
Slightly off topic but yesterday I spoke to two people working in tourism overseas. One has a whale watching business in the North Atlantic. Last year they (him and others) took our 108,000 customers. They are forecasting 7,000 this year, most of them already done.
The other one is a pilot in a port in the sub-antarctic where cruise vessels dock for Antarctic trips. They have been getting 110-140 cruise ships between Oct-Apr in recent years. Next season they expect "less than 10".
Both of the above examples are venture/outdoor type tourists, like majority that visits NZ is. This is the scale we are talking about. A complete collapse for potentially a long time to come.