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News by JEREMY PIERCE Premium Content   The owner of a Cairns adventure company which has already lost access to the JobKeeper subsidy has a worrying warning for the tourism industry when the scheme is terminated next week. The looming end of the JobKeeper initiative on March 28 has many in tourism circles fearing an industry Armageddon amid predictions up to 25,000 Queenslanders in the sector alone could lose their jobs. Roderic Rees, whose Cairns Adventure Group runs Foaming Fury and Raging Thunder rafting operations at Barron Gorge, has already fel...

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 11:40 am on March 12, 2021 | 2 comments The Tourism & Transport Forum has welcomed the federal government’s decision to subsidise 800,000 airfares, but warns that it will not be sufficient to preserve jobs across the broader tourism industry. It has called for a dedicated wage subsidy to come into effect until international travel resumes. It is a theme echoed by Cairns Adventure Group Director Roderic Rees, who appeared on Sky News yesterday calling for a wage subsidy to lift employee confidence so that businesses can “ride out the quiet ti...

Tourism sector will struggle to meet increased demand created by $1.2b stimulus11/03/2021|6min Cairns Adventure Group Director Roderic Rees says while the federal government’s $1.2 billion stimulus package is impressive, the tourism industry will require a boost in employee confidence to meet the increased demand. As part of the package 800,000 discounted airline tickets will be made available to Australians in a bid to restore the tourism, travel and aviation industries. “The harsh reality of the situation is a lot of Cairns operators have highly specialised staff that have left the ind...