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Australia - Nine million dollar boost for domestic and international tourism

Published by Ozgur Tore
Wednesday, 04 November 2009
The Minister for Tourism, Martin Ferguson AM MP, has announced a $9 million boost to cooperative marketing and called on Australia’s tourism industry to engage with Tourism Australia to maximise growth in domestic and international travel following the global recession. Speaking at the Tourism Ministers’ Council in Adelaide on Friday, Minister Ferguson said the extra funding was for the 2009/10 financial year and that he hoped contributions from industry partners – as well as state and territory governments – would significantly grow the amount to be spent promoting Australia in the months ahead. The $9 million will be brought forward from Tourism Australia’s 2010/2011 appropriation to promote domestic business travel and to stimulate travel from short-to-medium haul overseas markets (ten hours or less flying time).
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