Uluru wet weather track closures costing tourism operators vital business

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Tourism operators are calling on Parks Australia to urgently upgrade the Uluru base walk to an all-weather track, after years of intermittent rain closures hurting local businesses.

Tourism operators are losing business due to wet weather closures of the dirt track at the base of Uluru.Wet weather closures at one of Australia's top tourist destinations are costing operators tens of thousands of dollars each season.

"By then they're leaving town and we have to refund them and they haven't had a chance to re-book another attraction because they've been waiting for the rain to abate." "Uluru is Australia's crown jewel tourist attraction and it's disappointing when facilities are not kept to that standard," he said.10 per cent closure rate

"We lost 36 days of trading because the walk or the track around the base was closed, so we couldn't get our segways on," he said.Mr Swindells said wet weather closures were more common than people realised.

 

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