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  • SA tourism champions celebrated

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    Hosted by the Tourism Industry Council of South Australia, the 2024 SA Tourism Awards recognised tourism businesses, of which more than half were small and medium-sized enterprises. Accolades were awarded across 30 categories celebrating different parts of the sector including festivals, events, ecotourism, business events, transport operators, adventure tourism and more. Monarto Safari Park picked…

  • The cost of crossing the ditch just rose by $100 as Kiwis introduce holiday fee

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    The international visitor levy (IVL) will be hiked from $NZ35 ($A32) to $NZ100 ($A92) from October under changes announced on Tuesday. Australians and travellers from most Pacific nations are exempt from the IVL. Introduced in 2019, the IVL is plugged back into tourism and conservation projects to support both the sector and the places visitors…

  • The height of luxury: Why Gold Coast residents are being slugged a ‘view tax’ for high rise homes

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    Gold Coast residents have been slugged with a “view tax” by the local council, with rates determined by a high-rise unit’s floor number. The higher the apartment, the bigger the rate increase with some unit owners copping a rise of up to 50 per cent. More than 12,000 apartments are currently affected amid a cost…

  • Brisbanaissance continues as BEDA brings billion dollar boom

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    The Brisbane Economic Development Agency (BEDA) has reported a deliverance of $1 billion in economic benefit for Brisbane’s residents and businesses in the last financial year.  The city’s driver of investment, tourism and events, in the 2023/24 financial year BEDA claimed to have supported over 10,000 full-time jobs and created 860 new jobs, in addition…

  • Welcome to Australia, the country so nice you have to pay to get out

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    An additional $47.1 million had been delivered to the biosecurity system after a change to the government’s fees and charges, Agriculture Minister Murray Watt revealed on Tuesday. International travellers have been paying $10 more for the passenger movement charge since July 1 after the Commonwealth raised the fee to $70 in the 2023 federal budget.…

  • The local hero who started Australia’s real life dinosaur stampede

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    As a child, David Elliott had no interest in dinosaurs, nor did he learn about them in school. However, while farming sheep and cattle near Winton, Queensland in the 1990s, he started noticing the dinosaur bones on his property. “Bits of stuff had been found before, but it was very low key; it was always…

  • Tourism getting back on track as spending exceeds pre-Covid levels

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    International tourists spent $30.9 billion in Australia in the year to March 2024, slightly above pre-pandemic spending levels, according to data from Tourism Research Australia. Half the states and territories across Australia exceeded 2019 spending levels. South Australia recorded the greatest improvement, with spending at 120 per cent of pre-COVID levels, followed by Western Australia…

  • How this Queensland city has boomed despite China’s dead cat bounce

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    Everyone was waiting for China to reignite tourism. Politicians led trade missions, airlines rescheduled services, airports celebrated and destinations started putting out the welcome mat and they waited … and waited. Compared with other markets like New Zealand, the rebound from China has been a dead cat bounce, less than half the 2019 levels when…

  • New flights connect Adelaide to key interstate route

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    Tourism minister Zoe Bettison said the new route would entice more interstate visitors to South Australia, with the inaugural Perth to Adelaide service to commence next month in time with the West Australian school holidays. Taking off on June 28, the route will be flown three times a week and deliver 30,000 more seats between…

  • LIV Golf excitement tees off Friday

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    A lot has happened in the world of golf in the past 12 months. Former golfing number one, Spain’s Jon Rahm joined LIV Golf to head up the new Legion XIII team, Brooks Koepka won the PGA Championship and Bryson DeChambeau did his own heavy lifting at the recent 2024 Masters Tournament. All three will…