FEDERAL FUNDING FOR QUEENSLAND TOURISM SOLUTION
Source: Australia. Minister for Tourism. Media Release
"The Minister for Tourism, the Hon Martin Ferguson AM MP, has announced $4 million in Federal Government funding for projects to assist the Queensland tourism industry following Qantas’s decision to reduce airline capacity to the state.
Minister Ferguson said: “This package will be welcomed by the industry and it will go a long way toward helping the industry find long-term solutions to the challenges confronting it presently.
“Australian tourism operators are doing it tough, the industry’s concerns are very valid, and the problems faced by tourism nationally have been building for some time."