Major tour operator pulls pin on Alice Springs due to 'external challenges' facing region

The move comes as central Australia's tourism industry stares down the barrel of a languishing tourism season, resulting from soaring airfares and negative media attention around the crime crisis engulfing Alice Springs.during the 2023 peak tourism season.

"We are still very fragile post-COVID, and it's just little things that will make a huge impact, and unfortunately ATG's had to make this difficult decision," he said.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

External challenges?

Wait, we need a “conversation” about this. The ripple effect of incompetent ineffectual ministers and government.

As the cash handouts dry up...let's wait and see if the traditional owners have a backflip on climbing the rock

Tourists are the classic 'foot-loose' investors. With the whole World to choose from, tourists tend to prioritise places where they feel safe, welcomed, allowed to do interesting things and maybe grab a photograph or two as a memento. Don't want tourists? Do the opposite.

Egg shells story without mentioning the unmentionable. ‘You just have to walk up Todd Mall’ he says! Something something in your own nest!

This is just a taste of what will happen in these regions until tough measures are implemented to make these communities habitable .Criminals rule ,nothing to do with racism

No interest in going. Division, squalor, crime, get off our rock.

It used to be a place you could camp under the stars, climb Ayers Rock, take a tour led by an Aboriginal & go to Alice. Then they took away the cops powers, gave the grog back & totally ignored good people like Jacinta Price who have experience in Alice...

Good to hear. Tourism should be halted until something is done about these degenerates who are destroying the town.

People used to go there to climb Ayers Rock. But….. you know…..

‘External challenges’. God I hate such Wankspeak.

Is negative media to blame or is it what the media was reporting on?

Come to WA's Mount Augustus and see a real rock and its much safer

Does ABC stand for Annal Broadcasting Communist?

Sad news, would it be anything to do with scaring the age demographic that do those type of tours half to death with non stop propaganda about covid and then lifting restrictions on alcohol in a vulnerable community?

I sure as hell don't wanna go anywhere near it... not anymore too dangerous and subjected to too many 'welcome to country' nonsense

Imagine destroying a tourist mecca … Simply by saying you can’t do that … The bastions of the “new” mob. 🤦‍♂️

There’s a hint in this article about how life will be if we don’t voteno

What did you seriously expect.

How about bringing back the cashless debit card, and let tourists climb the rock, otherwise it's a shithole that nobody will want to visit let alone live in

“External challengers” hahaha you mean the violent Neanderthal behaviour of the local indigenous population.

Hmm if only we could work out why no one wants to go to Uluru anymore…

NT will be lost to alcohol fuelled indigenous crime putting the lives of indigenous women & children at significant risk of domestic violence & assaults. But the reality doesn't meet the political script being run by AlboMP & the NT Chief Minister TheNTNews 9NewsDarwin auspol

Where will affluent boomers go to get their packaged Indigenous cultural experiences?

The tourists have spoken.

of course it's nothing to do with the 'traditional owners'

😅You can say it ABC, find some courage ABC 👍

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