New tourism numbers show the sector is slowly climbing back.\xa0
Before Covid it was our largest export, and it's now our third largest, with visitors spending 2.1 billion dollars in the last quarter\xa0- Australians being the biggest contributors.\xa0
Tourism New Zealand Chief Executive Ren\xe9 de Monchy told Mike Hosking that it's been a phased response from different parts of the world.\xa0
He says China only opened up around January, and some other countries were also a bit slow to start travelling.\xa0
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