The latest National Visitors Survey has quantified the dire effects of bushfires and COVID-19 on the domestic travel industry, showing a massive loss in tourism spend.

The accompanying blackboard drawing pretty much sums up the latest tourism spend figures, so feel free to skip this story if you’re trying to avoid grim news.

For an enhanced reading experience, we recommend glazing over this research while listening to Shirley Bassey’s classic hit “Big Spender”.

As many as 322,000 Aussies plan on visiting one of NSW’s snowfields in the next two years. However, it’s not clear how many will spend most of their time inside their cabin drinking butterscotch schnapps.

It was only a couple of months ago that Mark McGowan was slagging off NSW over its border stance, and now he wants to copy Gladys.

ATEC managing director Peter Shelley has taken aim at the federal government’s approach to reviving Australia’s tourism industry. However, that’s not to say he’s wielding a revolver or rifle.

With Aussies currently unable to holiday overseas, new research has highlighted a huge opportunity for local travel and tourism operators.

The home-sharing giant is doing its part to stimulate domestic travel, and has even created a new program for tourism bodies.

The timeline for international travel’s restart has just become a whole lot clearer, thanks to a new chart detailing Australia’s plans.

With all the negative press attention surrounding AFTA last week, this new training program is a welcome distraction for the industry body.

In a stroke of good fortune for regional NSW tourism businesses hit by the dual crises of the bushfires and COVID-19 comes this news.

CAPA’s Peter Harbison has whipped out his crystal ball and fortune teller cloak to offer some predictions on the future of commercial aviation Down Under.