00:02Times may be tough, but people are still stopping to smell the flowers.
00:07This business opened its garden as an affordable Easter outing.
00:11Fortunately for us, we've sort of pitched this offering at both locals and tourists,
00:17and it's really softened the blow for us, I think.
00:20So if we were just really highly focused on tourists,
00:23I expect we would have seen a much more significant drop off.
00:26Many tourism businesses feared the price of fuel would keep people at home.
00:31Last year we were fully booked for Easter.
00:33All our dones were fully booked for 10 days, and we had a lot of people camping.
00:37It was definitely a little bit softer this year.
00:39We've got a few vacancies through the Easter period, and our Easter lunch service was down.
00:44It was also slightly quieter for this newer winery further afield.
00:49Stanley's obviously got its name in tourism, and people are always going to travel there,
00:53so we're lucky we're on this side of it, on the east side of it.
00:56Many would have had Easter plans organised before fuel prices began soaring.
01:01With winter around the corner and no clear end in sight for the conflict in the Middle East,
01:06tougher times could be ahead for operators.
01:09I think the North West Coast is really exposed and susceptible to fuel prices
01:13because we don't have any events of regional significance that pull people into the area.
01:18With Dark Mofro last week and tickets going on sale, that's driving great demand into Hobart.
01:24But what we need to do in this uncertain time is those visitors that are coming for things like that,
01:29we encourage them to actually get out and about as well.
01:31So we really need to have a very fine eye on our regions heading into the next few months.
01:37The regions hoping Tasmanians visit them too.
01:40Sorry.
01:40.
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