Reassurance for the travel industry as the final pandemic travel requirement will be scrapped.

The New Zealand Traveller Declaration will no longer be needed to enter the country after the Government announced its winding down most of its Covid-19 powers - including rolling out lockdowns, MIQ and vaccine mandates.

Tourism Holdings Chief Executive Grant Webster told Mike Hosking dropping the deceleration is healthy momentum for the travel industry.

He says overseas shareholders have expressed travellers concerns about the declaration, so he's glad its gone.

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