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Hey! You wanna come to New Zealand? It is a great place to visit! Please come on over – we would be delighted to see you. But there is just one thing. We are slightly short on workers right now, so how about… you change your own sheets? We’ll give you a discount on your nightly fee, so – what’s not to like?
Some New Zealand hotels are offering guests discounts or vouchers to service their own rooms because staff from overseas are in such short supply. And hospitality industry leaders say unless more overseas workers can be found promptly, the countries risks reputational damage. “There is a severe shortage of entry-level hotel workers in New Zealand and especially so in Queenstown,” Hotel Council Aotearoa strategic director James Doolan said. “The reasons stem from Covid, because in the first 12 months following border closures, the overnight accommodation sector lost more than half of its workforce.”
He said some hotels had reduced cleaning from daily to once every three days. Others had closed services such as spas or cut back on dining and room service.
https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/07/06/tourism-hits-an-absolutely-new-low