00:02Big hopes for a region hit hard by a tourism drop-off, driven by COVID-19, perceptions
00:19about community safety and recently a global fuel shortage.
00:23We know that the last few months have been a difficult time for Central Australian tourism
00:28with the fuel crisis and the cost of living crisis.
00:31Tourism Central Australia launching a campaign to finance trips to Alice, part of a $5 million
00:37federal funding injection announced last year.
00:40It's a campaign nationally encouraging Australians to come to Central Australia, we'll throw
00:47in an airfare to Alice Springs, there's a few terms and conditions that they need to tick.
00:52Including that visitors stay for at least two nights and book at least one tourism experience.
00:57In addition, 17 tourism operators to share in $2.5 million to fund new tourism experiences.
01:05Olive Pink Botanic Garden in Alice Springs to receive $180,000 to create a dedicated space
01:12for an Indigenous tourism hub.
01:14Hang on a minute, this will allow us to bring it all together and so that was the amazing
01:20thing about this grant is that so it was already here, operating low level, but this is going
01:25to allow us to bring it all together.
01:27It is really important that we do build the economy, it's not just about mining operations
01:33and putting funding in critical minerals.
01:35I think it's about looking at the small operators that do operate in our regions.
01:40A bid to attract people back to the heart of the country.
01:43Little part of the country.
01:45formula.
01:47Let's get started with an area where the country is.
01:47We have an area where we are located in the country.
01:48Let's just go.
01:48Let's go.ently
01:48look at the equipment for the country. Let's
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