Talking up the market
I HAVE read Kate Jones’ column twice as l thought I had missed a positive understanding about what Cairns was, is, and needs.
First of all the understanding of who comes here for a holiday. And it is surely not the market she is talking about; these are stopover visitors at their best.
No mention that four times more people had been employed in tourism between 1990-2005. No mentioning of our best holiday market which provided Cairns with more than 300,000 holidaymakers staying an average five days in Cairns. Again it is all about talking up a market which does not provide Cairns with a stable tourism future. The free and independent traveller market is tiny and does not provide sufficient turnover for any tourism operator. Those nicely worded letters do nothing for the majority of CBD traders, shops and operators.
A reliable airline flying seven days a week bringing holiday makers like we had between 2002-2005 would be what is needed and we could stop thinking up nonsense which we have been getting fed for the last 15 years.
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