{"id":9250,"date":"2022-06-16T18:06:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T08:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/?p=9250"},"modified":"2022-06-16T18:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T08:06:15","slug":"nz-ditches-pre-departure-testing-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/nz-ditches-pre-departure-testing-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ ditches pre-departure testing requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>In a massive boost for trans-Tasman tourism, the New Zealand government has announced it will be ditching testing requirements for travellers to produce a negative COVID-19 result before arriving in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Effective <strong>Tuesday, June 21, <\/strong>unvaccinated travellers will also be able to enter New Zealand without quarantining for the first time during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows a similar shift from Australia in April<a href=\"https:\/\/karryon.com.au\/industry-news\/pcr-no-more-testing-to-be-scrapped-for-all-arrivals-into-australia-from-april-17\/\">,<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>and the<span>\u00a0<\/span>United States<span>\u00a0<\/span>last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism figures have welcomed the move, suggesting tourists were choosing to travel to places like Australia which do not have pre-departure testing, which can be costly and logistically challenging.<\/p>\n<p>International arrivals<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>will still need to complete two rapid antigen tests after landing in New Zealand<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>as the government tracks new variants.<\/p>\n<p>Mask mandates remain for many indoor settings in New Zealand, including public transport and retail.<\/p>\n<p><span>For more, head to\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.govt.nz\/international-travel\/how-to-enter-new-zealand\/travel-with-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Opens in a new window\" rel=\"noopener\">www.govt.nz\/international-travel\/how-to-enter-new-zealand\/travel-with-australia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf7 Miles Holden<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a massive boost for trans-Tasman tourism, the New Zealand government has announced it will be ditching testing requirements for travellers to produce a negative COVID-19 result before arriving in the country. Effective Tuesday, June 21, unvaccinated travellers will also be able to enter New Zealand without quarantining for the first time during the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,158,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-holidays","category-home-page-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-01-18 00:21:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9255,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250\/revisions\/9255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtatravel.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}