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Nearly $100m support package for Australia’s zoos
It is a much-needed lifeline to help tourism businesses get through the COVID-19 crisis and to ensure the welfare of…
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Tourism Australia’s strategy ‘overhaul’ to reboot domestic tourism is endorsed
Domestic and intrastate tourism continues to deliver around 70% of Australia’s approaching $150 billion tourism and visitor economy and remains…
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“Everything changed literally overnight,” Best Western Australia director details massive response
“The status quo was no longer relevant; we were no longer just Australia talking about recovery from bushfires, drought and…
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Extreme standards attract guests: “Cleanliness is next to Godliness”
COVID-19 has made even the most easy-going person germophobic... The larger accom operators have already started to launch cleaning campaigns,…
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Industry
It’s just started: we’ll need war bonds, and stimulus on a scale not seen in our lifetimes
Governments are being asked to do the near impossible: to deliver on both health and the economy. In many circumstances…
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Tax implications of JobKeeper for accom sector
The tourism accommodation sector is calling on all state and territory governments to remove additional taxes and charges on JobKeeper…
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Surfers Paradise Marriott spreads ANZAC message for community
The aim was to drive a positive sentiment within the Gold Coast community, build an emotional connection in addition to…
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Industry
Virgin collapse not all doom and gloom
Aviation expert, Associate Professor Kate Quigley, talks about the implications of the Virgin Australia scenario and the COVID-19 crisis for…
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Reality bites as state reports massive Losses
The tourism industry has lost $3.1 billion and more than 30,000 jobs with six months of bookings cancelled and refunded…
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Industry
Despite huge coronavirus stimulus package, the government might still need to pay more
What if all of this non-ideological spending falls short anyway because at the margins, and for what appear to be…
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