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Tasmania’s Bay of Fires ‘ghost’ camp sites spark call for online booking system and regulation

Susan McKinnon and her family have been holidaying on Tasmania’s East Coast for the last 14 years.
Key points:
- Popular Christmas camping sites on Tasmania’s East Coast are being claimed weeks in advance then abandoned
- The “ghost sites” are forcing tourists and locals to search hours for an unoccupied site
- It’s renewed calls for a booking system to be imposed to help manage growing demand
They normally head up from Hobart in January, but this year they decided to come up early fearing they would miss out on a camping spot.
“Last year we were lucky to get the spot we found, so we came early this year,” she said.
She said she has seen people driving around looking for camps and not being able to find anything because sites have already been…
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