Australians have holidayed at home in force this year, delivering the local tourism sector a record $74 billion between January and September, up 20 per cent on 2019.
Chris Hemsworth’s 70-metre super yacht The Felix has been floating around the Whitsundays for weeks, as has Alani, the boat used recently byIn hippie chic Byron Bay, Peter Windrim of Natural Order Wines is still busily boxing half a dozen cases of preservative-free Vegan Sparkling, then e-biking it to southerners renting million-dollar shacks off Jonson Street for $2000-plus a day.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas Down Under – yet another regional Christmas that is, when country and city people alike bolt for the coast. “Yes, we’ve always been known for our outlying islands – but this year even the mainland has proved to be a sweet spot with the Australian consumer, and is almost fully booked out.The Whitsundays received a serious celebrity injection last year when George Clooney and Julia Roberts were in town to filmIt’s one of a few factors that helped the region welcome a record 923,000 Australians so far this year. They spent $1.
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