Kiwis pick up slack on private tracks

January 2021

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January 2021

Island Hills Station Walking Track was opened in response to New Zealand’s COVID-19 border closure. Photo: Matthew Cattin
New Zealand’s premier private tracks experienced a difficult year, but Kiwi walkers are helping them bounce back. As with most in the tourism sector, Shaun Monk experienced some “nervy” times in 2020. Shortly before the country plunged into lockdown, he threw in his “one-hundred-and-something thousand dollar” a year job to guide hunters around the 7000ha […]
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