Queenstown couple obtain indoor sky diving enterprise from American proprietors
2 min readAs many Queenstown tourism operators battle to remain afloat, 1 supervisor is so confident in the foreseeable future he has acquired his small business from its American house owners.
iFLY general manager Matt Wong and spouse Amy have ordered the indoor skydiving centre for an undisclosed sum.
Wong has been with the organization due to the fact it introduced with a $15 million wind tunnel in late 2018.
The business enterprise experienced been challenged by the loss of 3.3 million abroad guests to Queenstown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but due to the fact iFLY was somewhat new, it was equipped to rapidly adjust its concentrate to locals and the domestic market, he reported.
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Matt Wong is now the proprietor of Queenstown indoor skydiving organization iFLY.
That meant shifting value structures, giving educational possibilities and making solutions for area sport skydivers.
The sector was still challenging, but iFLY was in a a lot superior placement than many of the extra set up action vendors in Queenstown, Wong claimed.
The business enterprise experienced retained all of its staff members on complete wages.
“When you have a crisis that definitely concentrations the enjoying industry. We have been in a position where by we ended up all set to look for opportunities, and it is opened up the discipline a bit extra.”
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The crew at Queenstown’s indoor skydiving organization iFLY have retained their positions during the world wide pandemic.
Getting invested 20 years doing work in tourism in Queenstown and with outbound operators, Wong considered need for vacation to New Zealand in the upcoming would be “huge”.
“We’re in a excellent position to recuperate. We have just obtained to get to that stage where by the borders open.”
Wong and his companion individual 100 per cent of Queenstown’s iFLY corporation, but would continue to function with iFLY globally, which had 87 tunnels around the world.
“There’s not a lot of corporations that have that knowledge in global marketplaces.
“The partnership will keep on mainly because it is mutually beneficial.”
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iFLY Queenstown has halved its price ranges to catch the attention of Kiwi clients.
Tunnel traveling was just one of the speediest-developing sporting activities in the earth, Wong mentioned.
The company’s benefits bundled its capability to cater for young children as young as 5 to folks in their 90s and that it could run in all weather conditions.
“It certainly has not been effortless, and we have a long way to go but Amy and I are persuaded the small business has a fantastic long run which is why we have taken it on,” Wong said.
