Sunday Territorian

Partnershi­p program key to attracting more drive tourists to NT

- PHILLIPPA BUTT phillippa.butt@news.com.au

A NEW partnershi­p program designed to bring more drive tourists to the NT will today be launched.

Called Key to the NT, the program works as a website where local businesses can offer specials in one place, before customers are taken through to the businesses’ own sites for purchase.

Tourism NT will partner with the Caravan Industry Associatio­n of Australia and other local and national tourism businesses to promote NT holiday incentives through interstate tourism databases.

The incentives will be available to interstate visitors only, starting April 1, 2020.

The Key to the NT comes as part of the NT Government’s $2 million Immediate Tourism Resilience Plan.

Acting Tourism Minister Eva Lawler said the plan was developed to “minimise the impacts of the Australian bushfires and the national coronaviru­s travel restrictio­ns to support the Territory’s tourism industry and encourage visitors to come to the NT”.

“The Key to the NT partnershi­p program aims to promote Territory tourism and hotelier deals and value-add offers to interstate audiences via national tourism-related organisati­ons’ significan­t client databases.

“This is a great opportunit­y for local tourism operators and businesses to showcase their product nationally and provide extra incentive for Australian­s to visit the NT.”

Caravan Industry Associatio­n of Australia chief executive Stuart Lamont said the organisati­on was looking forward to encouragin­g more people to visit the NT.

“The Territory is ready made for a self-drive adventure,” he said.

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