These new conditions mean that tourists can stay in New Zealand as a digital nomad and keep in touch with work back home, without breaching their visa conditions. Both visitor visa recipients and people who enter with a New Zealand Electronic Travel Authority (NZeTA) will receive these conditions.

New Zealand has relaxed its visa requirements to allow tourists to work remotely while visiting the country in an effort to boost its tourism sector. Under the new rules, visitors to the country can now carry out remote working for a foreign employer while holidaying for up to 90 days.

In a bid to boost its economy (which technically entered recession in the last quarter of 2024) and encourage tourism (visitor numbers are still only at 86 percent of 2019 figures), New Zealand’s Immigration Minister Erica Stanford said that people on holiday in New Zealand will also be allowed to work remotely.

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The so-called "digital nomads" include visitors such as IT specialists, as long as they are not receiving any income from NZ sources.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand will introduce looser visa rules to allow holiday makers to work remotely while visiting the country, to boost its tourism sector and economy, it said on Monday.

New Zealand has relaxed its visa conditions in a bid to attract so-called ‘digital nomads’ to work remotely from the country. New Zealand’s immigration office announced on Monday that the rules for visitors will be changing to try to attract more people who are able to work online from anywhere in the world.

The country, which sank into a recession last year, is trying to entice highly skilled “digital nomads” to work in the island nation for up to nine months.

The recent changes to New Zealand's visa program doesn't actually involve the launch of a separate “digital nomad visa," but instead creates an option within the Visitor Visa ca