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“The travel industry has been the sacrificial lamb”: CATO bigwigs plead with Tourism Minister for financial aid 19 Feb 2021
The Council of Australian Tour Operators (CATO) has pushed for post-JobKeeper financial support from the federal government during a meeting with Tourism Minister Dan Tehan this week.
The delegation consisting of CATO managing director Brett Jardine, chairman Dennis Bunnik and board member Brad McDonnell met with Minister Tehan in Canberra on Tuesday to highlight the complex nature of the travel industry and the important role of the land supply sector.
Jardine said Australia’s Tourism Minister was engaged and interested in learning more about the sector and the impacts of COVID.
February 3, 2021
The beleaguered tourism industry is supercharging its appeal to the federal government for more support in its new ‘save the travel industry’ campaign, as the end of JobKeeper edges closer in March.
The campaign, which kicked off on Monday, is led by Matt Leedham, founder of Karryon and Travel to Change the World, and other industry players, including Darren Rudd, chief executive of Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA) and Dennis Bunnik of the Council of Australian Tour Operators.
The industry groups say that if a targeted rescue package does not kick in as soon as JobKeeper winds up on March 28, only one-in-10 travel agents will survive beyond April.