Queensland tourism operators hopeful for better school holidays after wet Easter weekend

Queensland tourism operators say they’ve had “doubly bad luck” this Easter weekend, with last week’s lockdown and poor weather prompting waves of cancellations across the state.

The Bureau of Meteorology predicted a broad area of the state, ranging from the central coast to the NSW border, could be inundated with rain from a trough off the Coral Sea.

It saw beaches on the Sunshine Coast close, with a hazardous surf warning still in place and marine wind warnings from…