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Tourism company's "pulling back on investment" in US as tariffs bite

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Publish Date
Wed, 23 Apr 2025, 10:58am
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Tourism company's "pulling back on investment" in US as tariffs bite

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 23 Apr 2025, 10:58am

One of the first locally listed companies is seeing the impact of Trump’s tariffs. 

Tourism Holdings Limited has seen a dramatic slowdown in bookings by its US division and is anticipating a “significantly” lower net profit than previously expected.  

Its share price fell more than 10% after announcing it was downgrading its earnings outlook. 

CEO Grant Webster told Francesca Rudkin in recent weeks, the booking intakes for the rentals division into the US are down 40-50%. 

However, he says people are simply choosing to travel elsewhere, and their other markets are actually up. 

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