21 May 2021

Cooks looks to turn exodus around

From Pacific Waves

The Cook Islands is pondering how to entice an exodus of young people back to the country.

Depopulation has long been an issue for the Cook Islands, but those numbers have shot up in the past few months, mostly tied to the loss of tourism jobs caused by the pandemic.

Jamie Tahana reports

People greet each other in the Cook Islands on the first day of the travel bubble with New Zealand.

Photo: RNZ / Nick Truebridge

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