Today being “pander to hotel owners” day Labor is joining the fray with some new things for tourism and some re-announcements of what they did over the weekend:
If re-elected, ACT Labor will invest an extra $12.2 million in tourism events and marketing to attract more visitors to Canberra and to support the 16,000 Canberrans employed in the tourism industry.
ACT Labor will:
Extend the very successful blockbuster fund, committing $1 million year for 4 years to help market major events in our city
Continue and expand the Enlighten Festival, Canberra’s new Autumn Festival
Establish a new international marketing campaign to complement new direct international flights into Canberra when they begin
Provide additional funding for the National Capital Educational Tourism Project of $400,000, to encourage more schools groups to visit Canberra
Provide additional funding to the Canberra Convention Bureau of $400,000 to help encourage more business tourists to Canberra
Increase grant funding for local events which attract visitors to Canberra, through the Event Assistance Program
