Kia Orana.

Thank you for agreeing to take part in the Cook Islands Business Confidence Index survey.

By completing the survey you will be helping to provide a better understanding of the current business climate facing the Cook Islands and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Your participation ensures that the business sector's voice can be heard more clearly by policy makers and the nation as a whole.

We invite all businesses to complete the survey, regardless of sector or size. This survey will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete.

All answers are anonymous and can in no way be linked to your personal details. The research is funded by the Cook Islands Tourism Corporation and conducted by the Pacific Tourism Data Initiative team within the School of Hospitality and Tourism at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.

To thank you for your participation, you can go into a draw to WIN a $500 Air Rarotonga voucher courtesy of Cook Islands Tourism Corporation. Enter by completing the prize draw section at the end of the survey.

• Participation is entirely voluntary.
• By taking the survey you are giving consent to be part of this research.
• You must be 18 years or older to participate in the survey.
• All answers are anonymous and can in no way be linked to your personal details.
• You can withdraw from the survey at any point until your responses have been submitted but once this has occurred your data cannot be identified or withdrawn.

Aggregated results of this research may be used in journal and conference publications. A summary of the results of this research will also be available on AUT School of Hospitality and Tourism research website in early 2024.