More than half of Australia’s tourism businesses will go bust after the JobKeeper program ends unless they are thrown a financial lifeline, industry bosses warn.
Sixty per cent of tourism businesses will go bust unless the Federal Government throws a financial lifeline to the sector after the expiration of the JobKeeper program in March, industry insiders have warned.
Tourism bosses will hold crisis talks with Minister Dan Tehan on Wednesday, pleading the case for additional government support after March 28.
The meeting comes as a new campaign, called #SaveTheTravelIndustry, raises awareness of the sector’s plight.
A petition on change.org calling for JobKeeper to be extended for the tourism industry had attracted more than 15,000…