While the loss of international visitors to West Coast glacier towns has caused job cuts, businesses to close and people to leave, further up the Coast, the picture is a bit rosier.
MarketView figures show visitors to the Buller District brought in $43 million for the year ending September - up from $36 million on the year before .
Visitor dollars are also up about 15 percent to $21.1 million for Westport and from five to seven-point-two million for Reefton.
Tess Brunton has more.
