CMW takes a deep dive into the Great Barrier Reef and checks out the improving offer in Cairns
As New Zealand and Australia opened up a travel bubble in October, maybe there is some Antipodean light emerging at the end of the dark corona tunnel.
In normal times, Cairns & Great Barrier Reef presents meeting planners with a combination of sustainable, first-class facilities and operators amid an amazing natural world.
The area has twin World Heritage-listed icons, the Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforest – natural delegate boosters for any event. The international airport is located 10 minutes from the centre of Cairns and in a normal year it handles up to five million travellers. In August the A$55m T2 Domestic Terminal upgrade was completed.
Photo: Northern Escape Collection
2. THERE SHOULD BE MORE BEACHES THAN GUESTS
There s a lot more than 28 beaches (which is the number of guests); the trick s in finding them, there s no roads, just hiking trails, spread throughout 1300 hectares of national park. Spare your feet, take a boat. You will now receive updates from Traveller Newsletter
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3. IT SHOULD BE HARD TO GET TO, BUT NOT TOO HARD TO GET TO
It s too far out for motor launches – who wants lots of guests? Guests arrive by helicopter (the trip takes 35 minutes each way). When you leave everyone comes out to wave you off. Each time a new guest arrives, you feel like pointing at the chopper like the little bloke from
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