Cook Islands still keen for a travel bubble with NZ

The Cook Islands is continuing to push for a travel bubble with New Zealand, despite Wellington’s reluctance.

90 percent of the country’s economy comes from tourism, an industry which has been decimated by the travel suspensions caused by Covid-19.

The Cook Islands government on Thursday extended its wage subsidy, which is supporting 3-thousand people, until September. A spokesperson for New Zealands’ prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, told RNZ her government’s first priority remains a trans-Tasman bubble.>RNZ