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July 28, 2023
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CitySafe extension
EMMA MEMMA TWIRLS ON IN
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Children’s entertainer Emma Memma visited the youngsters, from left: Miller Hodges, Wynter Hodges, Surum Drummond and Braxron Penrose, at Child’s World Early Learning Centre earlier this week before her show at the Tanks Art Centre on August 5. Full story - Page 17. Picture: Maddy Gavin
THE Cairns CitySafe network is to be extended to Ports North’s property on the waterfront. The council will enter a Memorandum of Understanding with the port authority to add more cameras, particularly in the boardwalk restaurant precinct to prevent blindspots. Mayor Bob Manning said the council was “deeply concerned about law and order matters”, particularly earlier this month after a group of children rampaged on the boardwalk, allegedly assaulting restaurant staff and stealing property. He said there were no cameras in the area but the CitySafe network a short time later tracked the group who were picked up by police and dealt with. Restaurateurs have started paying for security patrols in the area.
C’mon, Aussies, c’mon
New challenge for tourism sector is to hold on to domestic holiday-makers l CAIRNS CBD | Nick Dalton THE greatest challenge for the Far North’s tourism industry was retaining the multibillion-dollar domestic visitor market as more Australians chose to
holiday overseas, a business lunch in Cairns was told this week. Conus Business Consultancy Services director Pete Faulkner, who delivered his annual economic outlook for the Cairns Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, said domestic tourism had been “phenomenally strong” without
international tourist numbers. He said tourism expenditure was “smashing records” with domestic numbers at $4.4 billion while international was $500 million, compared to $2.5bn and $1bn pre-COVID. “Tourism has been the stand-out performance over the last few years,
particularly domestic tourism, but the challenge as Australians travel overseas is: can we hang on?,” Mr Faulkner told 160 movers and shakers. “The hope is that as international improves it will pick up some of the slack in the slight downturn in domestic.” Mr Faulkner said domestic numbers
were dominated by the drive market rather than by air travel which was back to about 90 per cent while international numbers through the airport were now about 70 per cent. “Before we know it, we’ll be back to 100 per cent,” he said.
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