‘Sea of empty shops’: Silent victims of tourism tragedy

Amid predictions up to a quarter of Queensland’s 40,000 tourism operations could go broke due to the coronavirus pandemic, businesses from dozens of other industries are being caught in the crossfire.More than 50,000 Queensland businesses and some 172,000 workers are expected to be impacted by the end of the JobKeeper subsidy next week.Tourism data has revealed every dollar spent in a country town is recycled seven times as an example of how vital tourism is to bush communities and the same scenario…



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