Follow Up: Fallon Hudson of the Mackay Daily Mercury reported yesterday that Tourism Whitsundays CEO, Peter O'Reilly, 'wants to cash in on the Federal election by asking Dawson candidates to commit to funding to help bring to fruition the Airlie Beach Main Street precinct."
"Mr O’Reilly is urging the regional tourism industry to unite and start flexing some political muscle in the last two weeks of the campaign." Well, we already know TW's versions of 'unite', and 'association'.
The full article by Fallon can be found here. These are the two and only comments responding to Fallon's story:
Why would a tourist want to come here anyway, the aussie dollar is too high, the beach's are nicer and cheaper to visit in Thailand, lots of the shop owner's here are rude and most of the food outlets are unhygenic and run by kids, people here handle money and then go straight back to the kitchen and prepair food, lots of ex tourist complain about Mackay and surrounding areas when they get back home, Us North Queenslanders don't make very good servants, and service is what it's all about, we aren't the only place in the world that has dive reefs.
Flexing political muscle? Sounds more to me like O'Rielly trying to pretend he's doing something to keep his job and hide the inadequacies of Tourism Whitsundays. $50 million? You have to be joking. Operators have for years been relying on backpackers allowed their tourism assets to age and decay, and their standards to drop, until they are the shape they are today, and that's a disgrace. Haven't they heard of investment? Why should they expect the taxpayer to bail them out? They are large and small businesses who get the same treatment as any other business, plus they get a bundle of taxpayers $$$ in promotion. The main street in Airlie is a Council road. Let the Council fix it! Don't you dare spend my money on it!
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