Two Month Old Tourism Strategy Already Failing

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Two Month Old Tourism Strategy Already Failing

 The much heralded National Tourism Strategy launched with great fanfare by the Rudd Government in December last year has already comprehensively failed.

 Federal Opposition Spokesman on Northern Australia, Senator Ian Macdonald said from the Whitsunday Coast where he was campaigning with Dawson LNP Candidate, Cr George Christensen, that principle number two relating to reduced regulation was clearly not working in the Whitsundays.

 “Whitsunday Tourism organisations have been trying for two years to advance ‘dive wreck’ tourism along the Queensland coast. Interminable regulation and a demand for $90,000 in fees have meant the project is no closer to fruition,” Senator Macdonald said.

 “While I understand the need for careful investigation, it seems incredible that Commonwealth regulation has so far prevented what could be a significant boost to the Queensland tourist experience.”

 Point two of Mr Rudd’s tourism strategy claimed to

 “Reform regulation that impedes tourism investment and facilitate tourism investment and development;”

 “Yet within two months of this profound posturing, regulation in this one instance seems to be increasing,” he said. 

Councillor Christensen said that Mr Rudd’s strategy is anther example of his all talk and no action approach to the government of Australia.

 “For a government that can’t manage an insulation program it’s no wonder that it can’t do more than issue platitudes when it comes to much needed assistance for the Queensland Tourism Industry,” Cr Christensen said.

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