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Employment plan for Sydney launched

Federal minister for trade Andrew Robb and NSW deputy premier and minister for tourism and major events, Andrew Stoner, have released the Sydney Tourism Employment Plan, which the government hopes will address the labour supply and skills development issues in the tourism sector.

The Sydney TEP was developed over a 12-month period in collaboration with more than 300 tourism and hospitality stakeholders across 16 local government areas as part of Tourism 2020 – a partnership between the Australian and state and territory governments to increase Australia’s share of overnight tourism spend to between $115 billion and $140 billion by 2020.

“Sydney welcomes 30 million visitors every year, generating $14.2 billion in economic activity and employing 158,000 people in our tourism industry,” Mr Stoner said.

“To meet the labour needs of our growing tourism sector NSW will need an estimated 16,800 additional people working in the industry in the near future.”

Mr Robb said tourism was one of Australia’s key economic strengths. “The jobs of over 929,000 Australians are linked to tourism and for every dollar spent on tourism, it generates an additional 90 cents across our economy. That is more than what is generated from mining and resources, education and retail.”

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