NZBusiness+Management

TIME TO PRESS RESET

Imagine you own an inbound travel business turning over $4.5 million in sales per annum, when suddenly New Zealand’s borders are slammed shut overnight on you, indefinitely.

Such was the nightmare faced by Auckland-based Sébastien Michel and business partner Carole Zink on March 19,2020.

Covid had terminated Frogs-in-NZ, the business they had grown out of a travel blog Sébastien created in 2001.

To appreciate the gravity of the situation they found themselves in, you first need to examine why the now renamed Frogs was travelling so successfully

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