Originally Posted by
LapSap
If the country is supposedly awash with 50billion tourist dollars that can’t be spent overseas, is saving a measly 100 or so bucks on the airfare component enough to swing somebody’s decision to suddenly take a domestic holiday that they wouldn’t have taken otherwise?? If that’s a game changer then they probably weren’t going to spend much at the other end!
So people can purchase cheap airfares but sadly they don’t have the money to pay for the holiday component because they’ve either lost jobs, lost businesses, or they are trying to save a few sheckles for the next lockdown and mass job loss. As for destinations, we went for a leisurely week in a retreat in Stanthorpe last week - half the businesses were shut down permanently or only open for a day or two per week, even then they were only open for a few hours. So be prepared to go on that long awaited holiday only to find out at the other end that nothing is open or it is no longer operating. Fu#king Governments really have no idea of the colossal long term impact that this world is going to experience for years to come.