In fact, on the day that myself, Dame Therese Walsh who's the chair of Air New Zealand, and the CEO, Greg Foran, announced the first direct flight from New York, I received this message from one of New Zealand's legend tourist operators, Dr Gerry McSweeney: "A September 2022 booking came to us today at Wilderness Lodge, Lake Moeraki, West Coast, for a three-day stay for two New Yorkers flying direct to New Zealand, and on the Air New Zealand flight. They booked through an enthusiastic New Zealand / Australia specialist US travel agent. Great that New Zealand is shortly to open. Great work by the Labour Government in keeping us safe, but also allowing international tourism-focused businesses like ours to recommence operations." That tends to be the sentiment I get from the vast majority of tourism businesses. They know that things have been hard; of course they know things have been hard because they've done it tough themselves. But they understand the reasons why we did what we did, what we had to do to keep Kiwis safe—and now we're about to open for business. 