More travel voucher schemes could be rolled out to help Qld tourism industry

More travel voucher schemes could be on the cards for people to visit battered Queensland regions in a bid to revive the tourism sector.

Queensland’s tourism minister Stirling Hinchliffe on Sunday said work was being done in regards to other locations that could benefit from a similar scheme to the one rolled out for Cairns, where thousands of Queenslanders were offered free $200 travel vouchers to visit the tourist hotspot.

“When we announced the Cairns holiday dollars, we flagged at that time that was effectively going to be a trial we were going to learn from and look at how we could apply it and work with the tourism authorities and operators in other locations around…