Big4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort owner Greg McKinnon said the outages were another blow to tourism operators after months of struggling through the pandemic. Power cut out at the resort at 5.30pm on Wednesday and was not restored until 4am on Thursday. “It just ruins the reputation not only of ourselves but of the town,” he said. “You don’t want people to say, ‘Look, let’s not go to Airlie. They don’t have enough power to service their tourists’. “In today’s society, this sort of thing should never happen.” The park is currently at full capacity and Mr McKinnon said he had been inundated with complaints.