Would you be tempted by a staycation in Sydney if the Government footed some of the bill? That's what the city's struggling accommodation sector argues is needed for it to survive.An international visitor ban and restrictions on domestic travel have drastically reduced Sydney tourismOther states and territories have similar voucher schemes available to encourage local tourism
"Those properties that are within a three or four hour drive of Sydney are doing extremely well," James Michael, CEO of Tourism Accommodation Australia said. "[Many of the hotels] are doing 40 and 50 per cent on Friday and Saturday nights but through the week they're less than 10 per cent," Mr Michael said.Catch up on the main COVID-19 news from October 20 with our coronavirus live blog.
absolute disgrace to come out and cry that their rooms are not sold when there are 30.000 AbandonedAussies who cannot return home because of travelcap introduced to 'manage hotel capacity' There is capacity so BringThemHome and eliminate the travelcap immediately
How about accommodating the 30,000 or so strandedAussies asap? Why is there a travelcap on the number of seats airlines can use on an inbound flight (approx 70) then? Or are they not good enough for business or Australia
Looking forward to visiting soon. 👍🏼
Yeah.Especially for a $100 a night room. abcnews auspol
Are you joking I thought the ScottMorrisonMP Govt was 'exhausting all avenues' of hotel quarantine for standedAussies? Obviously not! There are 30,000 Australians that would stay in these hotels for 2 weeks if they were able to!😣