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Rebecca Ingram: Tourism Industry Aotearoa chief on data showing tourism industry may be short as many as 80,000 workers

Published: Feb. 6, 2023, 7:49 p.m.

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Latest data shows the tourism sector could be short 80,000 staff, an increase of 13,000 more than last year, with some concerned we may be going backwards.

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National have their own ideas of how we could fix the sector including scrapping the median wage and replacing it with an industry average, making sure key tourism roles have a pathway to residence, and processing work visas faster.

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But what does the industry think we need to do?

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Tourism Industry Aotearoa chief executive Rebecca Ingram joined Mike Hosking.

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