Queenstown Mayor Jim Boult agrees the tourism township is heading for 18.5 percent unemployment - but only if it does nothing

Queenstown Mayor Jim Boult agrees the tourism township is heading for 18.5 percent unemployment - but only if it does nothing

5 June 2020
Unemployment is projected to rise from 1.1 percent to this level in March if early Infometrics modelling is right

Boult says the numbers are based on a do-nothing scenario and that isn't going to happen.

He says the vital trans-Tasman bubble will be the difference between businesses avoiding going under.

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