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From $317,000 cruises to all-year hotel stays, how our city became holiday central
Brisbane as a tourist town, who would have thought?
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Brisbane as a tourist town, who would have thought?
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China Eastern Airlines will operate seasonal services from Shanghai to Cairns bringing Chinese visitors directly into the region for the Chinese New Year celebrations in 2024 and injecting up to $3 million into the local economy.
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Flight Centre earnings for the first quarter has tripled to $102 million as tourism starts a big recovery underpinned by cashed-up baby boomers and the view that travel was no longer discretionary.
They were once an economic powerhouse driving Queensland’s tourism and now after more than three years the Chinese have returned.
Brisbane has suddenly become a destination of choice for international small and medium-sized enterprises travelling to Australia, with new data revealing more than 24 per cent of bookings into Australia were heading to Queensland, according to the Flight Centre-owned Corporate Traveller.
China was likely to take over as Queensland’s number one source for tourists next year after China Eastern announced it would resume direct flights between Shanghai and Brisbane from the end of October.
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