Now is not the time to increase the Rakiura/Stewart Island visitor levy, a local tourist guide has said. Southland District Council has mooted a tripling of the $5 levy introduced in 2013, but Ulva Goodwillie said such a jump couldn’t be justified, especially when Kiwis, the island’s only visitors during the Covid-19 pandemic, were doing […]
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