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‘Knot in the pit of my stomach’: Even booming tourism operators live in fear – Brisbane Times
Some south-east Queensland tourism operators have enjoyed a bumper summer, but are too nervous to celebrate.
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It takes several laps of Noosas main drag, Hastings Street, to find a carpark and nearly every table is occupied at the string of sidewalk cafes by 9am.
It is a weekday and a vastly different scene than in the far north Queensland city of Cairns where near-empty tour boats are floating around the Great Barrier Reef.
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