Pacific tourism is desperate for a vaccine and travel freedoms, but the industry must learn from this crisis
- Written by Apisalome Movono, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Massey University

News of successful COVID-19 vaccine trials has raised hopes in the Pacific that the hard-hit tourism industry will begin to re-open in 2021.
Even before the vaccine announcements, there was excitement in the Cook Islands over a recent New Zealand government delegation to survey the country’s borders and discuss a potential...