Post by Struth on Jul 22, 2020 21:06:17 GMT 8
Many people around around Australia are small thinkers when it comes to tourism, and which tourists you should want to attract.
With our borders to the world closed here in the new Chinese communist province of Australia, people in the tourist industry are rightly seeking the domestic tourist, because none other exists.
(As of the writing of this, scratch that if you're a Victorian because no matter if you are from Mildura or Myrtleford, you're a leper of death).
Not that many international tourists of value came here before Covid, (although it wasn't always the case a bit further back in time).
Localism, you'll hear it all the time, where people think of their own little worlds and think in small ways.
Forget Covid for a minute.
I know that's impossible with the MSM scaring the sh...t out of everyone 60/60/24/7 but breath deeply and think back, to before commo-covid.
Australians cannot seem to grasp the concept that what is good for the country is going to be good for them.
It's only about their neck of the woods and maintaining a status quo or slow build.
If government assistance should be required it should be available.
You'd hear tour operators and accommodation businesses talk about their little neck of the woods as needing people to visit their area from other parts of Australia.
Never quite grasping the big picture.
There of course is value in the domestic tourist spending money in their own country, but it is much more of a redistribution exercise than a great export earner for Australia.
Yet for international tourists , Australia is expensive, far away, over regulated, the organised guided tours are often political and childish leftism,( which insults people from countries not as naive as Australia), generally poor quality, lies are spread about our reefs and our bushfires are hurting, our racism...god, our racism...phew, we suffer from having no real culture thanks to multiculturalism, (and believe it or not, that was once a big attraction)....and we are increasingly boring.
Good coffee is found all over the world and wine is exported........yawn.
People don't spend 16 hrs on planes to taste wine in the numbers we need.
Back packers have been scared away from working holidays due to greedy tax moves by government.
It has been a long decline and a long time in coming.
In Australia, some boring old bat with a B&B around Alice Springs would have conniptions if told that Alice Springs was planning on becoming the Las Vegas of Australia, and the Todd Mall the Vegas style "strip".
The casinos would steal her custom, not that the overall numbers to town would increase so dramatically she gets fully booked.
She can't work shit like that out and, well, there's no guarantees in life, unless it's a subsidy from the local tourism bureaucracy to keep her afloat.
Her protest to the marxist, anti development tourism bodies would ensure she gets her way.
Nothing like that would ever get off the ground anywhere in Australia.
Obviously to the smarty pants that read this blog, the loss for her would be massive. You and I get that.
Her potential to grow and do well shattered by her own small thinking yawnsville tourism approach.
It is a huge disease and ultra prevalent in Australia.
If we can pull through covid, we will still have government that has put itself above the rule of law.
This means many industries will find attracting investment near impossible. The government(s) can't be trusted to not do this lock down tyranny , or anything else they so desire, by decree at anytime.
Yet much of the infrastructure required for international tourists to visit is in place and it is potentially a huge export earner for Australia without a mine or a dam or a power station required , in the immediate future anyway.
What is required is a change of attitude and culture, and a massive reduction of red, green and blue tape, public liabilities etc.
We also need to understand which international tourists are the best to attract.
And on a purely by head basis, or bums on seats basis, the European and American tourists are the best by far.
For Example, Chinese come in groups, stay and spend in Chinese owned businesses.
Quantity is not quality.
Back in the late 1990's our tourism industry became increasingly controlled by government Bureaucracy intent on destroying it, in some cases very much with a marxist agenda in mind, (Ayer's Rock for example) and others out of an insulated, public servant arrogance and bitterness against the free wheeling culture of Aussies at the time, a complete lack of knowledge of the industry, and a desire to turn tourism in Australia into the fiesta of choice of either wine tasting and sitting in a B&B, or sitting in a B&B and wine tasting....(oh and something about a "day spa")
They spat their venom and vileness at "Hoges" and his shrimp on the barbie success, they weren't having that yobbo represent what it was to be Australian.
They had class, after all, and were not bogans.
Tourists were to taste wine, ride push bikes down disused railway lines called "ways" (millions of tax payer dollars spent to come up with this) ride back to their B&Bs with their cardigans around their shoulders, for god sake....and they were to bloody well like it.
Later, these same people had a bimbo in a bikini ask a confused global audience.......where the bloody hell are ya?
There is much that could be done to instantly bring in billions into this country that would not require billions to get it happening.
It requires only for the government to get the F out of the road and let private enterprise do it.
International tourism, when finally started again, if ever, has been now separated from it's sorry past from the late 1990's to Covid .
Let's start a fresh and boot government out of the picture.
File under "Ya dreaming"
With our borders to the world closed here in the new Chinese communist province of Australia, people in the tourist industry are rightly seeking the domestic tourist, because none other exists.
(As of the writing of this, scratch that if you're a Victorian because no matter if you are from Mildura or Myrtleford, you're a leper of death).
Not that many international tourists of value came here before Covid, (although it wasn't always the case a bit further back in time).
Localism, you'll hear it all the time, where people think of their own little worlds and think in small ways.
Forget Covid for a minute.
I know that's impossible with the MSM scaring the sh...t out of everyone 60/60/24/7 but breath deeply and think back, to before commo-covid.
Australians cannot seem to grasp the concept that what is good for the country is going to be good for them.
It's only about their neck of the woods and maintaining a status quo or slow build.
If government assistance should be required it should be available.
You'd hear tour operators and accommodation businesses talk about their little neck of the woods as needing people to visit their area from other parts of Australia.
Never quite grasping the big picture.
There of course is value in the domestic tourist spending money in their own country, but it is much more of a redistribution exercise than a great export earner for Australia.
Yet for international tourists , Australia is expensive, far away, over regulated, the organised guided tours are often political and childish leftism,( which insults people from countries not as naive as Australia), generally poor quality, lies are spread about our reefs and our bushfires are hurting, our racism...god, our racism...phew, we suffer from having no real culture thanks to multiculturalism, (and believe it or not, that was once a big attraction)....and we are increasingly boring.
Good coffee is found all over the world and wine is exported........yawn.
People don't spend 16 hrs on planes to taste wine in the numbers we need.
Back packers have been scared away from working holidays due to greedy tax moves by government.
It has been a long decline and a long time in coming.
In Australia, some boring old bat with a B&B around Alice Springs would have conniptions if told that Alice Springs was planning on becoming the Las Vegas of Australia, and the Todd Mall the Vegas style "strip".
The casinos would steal her custom, not that the overall numbers to town would increase so dramatically she gets fully booked.
She can't work shit like that out and, well, there's no guarantees in life, unless it's a subsidy from the local tourism bureaucracy to keep her afloat.
Her protest to the marxist, anti development tourism bodies would ensure she gets her way.
Nothing like that would ever get off the ground anywhere in Australia.
Obviously to the smarty pants that read this blog, the loss for her would be massive. You and I get that.
Her potential to grow and do well shattered by her own small thinking yawnsville tourism approach.
It is a huge disease and ultra prevalent in Australia.
If we can pull through covid, we will still have government that has put itself above the rule of law.
This means many industries will find attracting investment near impossible. The government(s) can't be trusted to not do this lock down tyranny , or anything else they so desire, by decree at anytime.
Yet much of the infrastructure required for international tourists to visit is in place and it is potentially a huge export earner for Australia without a mine or a dam or a power station required , in the immediate future anyway.
What is required is a change of attitude and culture, and a massive reduction of red, green and blue tape, public liabilities etc.
We also need to understand which international tourists are the best to attract.
And on a purely by head basis, or bums on seats basis, the European and American tourists are the best by far.
For Example, Chinese come in groups, stay and spend in Chinese owned businesses.
Quantity is not quality.
Back in the late 1990's our tourism industry became increasingly controlled by government Bureaucracy intent on destroying it, in some cases very much with a marxist agenda in mind, (Ayer's Rock for example) and others out of an insulated, public servant arrogance and bitterness against the free wheeling culture of Aussies at the time, a complete lack of knowledge of the industry, and a desire to turn tourism in Australia into the fiesta of choice of either wine tasting and sitting in a B&B, or sitting in a B&B and wine tasting....(oh and something about a "day spa")
They spat their venom and vileness at "Hoges" and his shrimp on the barbie success, they weren't having that yobbo represent what it was to be Australian.
They had class, after all, and were not bogans.
Tourists were to taste wine, ride push bikes down disused railway lines called "ways" (millions of tax payer dollars spent to come up with this) ride back to their B&Bs with their cardigans around their shoulders, for god sake....and they were to bloody well like it.
Later, these same people had a bimbo in a bikini ask a confused global audience.......where the bloody hell are ya?
There is much that could be done to instantly bring in billions into this country that would not require billions to get it happening.
It requires only for the government to get the F out of the road and let private enterprise do it.
International tourism, when finally started again, if ever, has been now separated from it's sorry past from the late 1990's to Covid .
Let's start a fresh and boot government out of the picture.
File under "Ya dreaming"