POLICY WATCH: NEW STRATEGIES TO BUILD A STRONG TOURISM WORKFORCE
WINTER | 2021 | ISSUE 6
IXL Long Bar - The Henry Jones Art Hotel, Adam Gibson
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k, so it might be hard to believe right now, with large parts of the country in lockdown and hard borders in place with some of our largest visitor markets, but we are still working on the expectation of a busy peak visitor season this summer. The visitor numbers over the first part of this year before the latest delta disruption, along with the tracking of consumer travel preferences and forward bookings, all gives confidence that once we hit the magic vaccine rate and border restrictions are lifted
permanently, demand for Tasmania will spike. And quickly. The T21 Steering Committee, bringing together the senior government and industry representatives, continues to meet regularly to consider and prioritise responses to each disruption to our visitor economy, while also planning for the inevitable recovery and growth that will occur. One area that is dominating our attention is how we plan to meet the demand for workers across our tourism and hospitality sectors, should we have that bumper summer season.
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