Friday, February 18, 2022
The Australian Tourism Minister, Dan Tehan, has recently explained that he’s quite optimistic that by the end of the year, in terms of international visitor numbers, the situation will be getting back to the levels of pre-pandemic times. From February 21st, Australia will be open to all those tourists, business travellers and other visitors, who are fully vaccinated. However, visa holders who are not fully vaccinated will still require a valid travel exemption to enter Australia. They will fall under state and territory quarantine requirements.
Also, on the safe resumption of the cruise industry, the federal government is working with the states and territories together. Mr Tehan explained that he was confident the reopening would occur in a hassle-free manner.
“This is all new to us in terms of having the full border reopen, but we are very confident – having planned this for a couple of weeks – we have the resources in place to make this go smoothly,” he told reporters in Canberra on Friday.
He stated that there was a huge demand which would be fuelled by the marketing campaign of Tourism Australia to support people to “start thinking big again”.
However, it’s not known exactly how quickly the industry will get back to normal.
“How long that takes will be very much determined by peoples’ mindset as to when they really feel confident they can travel and travel safely, knowing the borders will remain open and they won’t be impacted by decisions which might mean that visits are cut short,” he said.
“Hopefully by the end of the year we will be looking at numbers getting back to where they were pre-pandemic.”
Tags: Australian Tourism
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