Flights, tour bookings from Singapore unaffected by Australia bushfires

SINGAPORE: Flight and tour bookings from Singapore to Australia have not been affected by the bushfires that have ravaged the country's Southeastern coast, according to tour operators CNA spoke to on Friday .

Similarly, Chan Brothers said that although some groups in Australia had to hold off plans to visit the Hunter Valley region, no customers had cancelled their bookings to Australia in November and December last year. A Jetabout Holidays spokesperson said that out of almost 1,000 bookings to Australia in December, about 10 customers cancelled.

Since September last year, bushfires in the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria have claimed at least 18 lives. Dozens more are missing and tens of thousands have been forced to evacuate. A view shows light and smoke from wild bushfires in Mallacoota, Victoria, Australia December 31, 2019, in this image taken from the Goodwin Sands sandbar in the lake. Courtesy of George Mills/Social Media via REUTERS

Nobody goes there much,thus unaffected.

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