YearBook 2020

The importance of tourism has never been more appreciated than it is now. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how far the visitor economy...

Despite the Whakaari eruption and COVID-19 bringing challenges to the local and national economy, the Eastern Bay of Plenty (EBOP) has good reason to...

Early 2020 has provided a sour-tasting appetiser to what is to come over the next year. But while the future is very uncertain, I...

There’s an adage – when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Whilst COVID-19 has delivered a savage setback to many businesses, and a lethal blow to others in 2020

COVID-19 has dealt a blow to the region this year that is going to be felt for a long time, which is why we must adapt and work hard to ensure we help communities get back on their feet.

Penning my thoughts on the region’s challenges partway through a pandemic response in the early stages of the most significant recession in living memory is more than a little daunting.

At a point between embarking on our second Bay of Plenty Business News Year Book – and the publication of this edition – something strange happened. The world as I understood it was fundamentally changed by a virus that was invisible to the naked eye.