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Business Daily: After Coronavirus: A Trans-Tasman travel bubble?

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After Coronavirus: A Trans-Tasman bubble?

05/05/2020 GMT

After Coronavirus: A Trans-Tasman travel bubble?

BBC World Service - Business Daily, After Coronavirus: A Trans-Tasman travel bubble?

Are New Zealand and Australia considering lifting travel restrictions too early?

Could a quarantine-free regional travel area be on the cards?

New Zealand is seen by many as a great example of surviving coronavirus, but with such a tourism-heavy economy there are concerns a further shock is to come. One idea mooted to help alleviate this is the so-called “trans-Tasman bubble” in which travel restrictions between Australia and New Zealand would be reciprocally lifted, before all the world’s borders open up, to stimulate commerce between the two nations. This programme features Colin Peacock in Wellington, Maggie Fea from Gibson Valley Wines in Queenstown, Veteran New Zealand politician Peter Dunne and Pacific health policy expert Dr. Colin Tukuitonga.

(Picture: The Australia and New Zealand flags. Picture credit: Getty Images)

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