Great State Voucher Scheme

In reply to the Hon. M.C. PARNELL (1 December 2020).

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer): The Premier has advised:

The voucher system was not designed for a subsequent allocation as this would have caused multiple issues. The primary reason was that the deals submitted by the hotels expired during a set period–at the request of the tourism industry. As soon as the booking period ended, the deals were no longer visible to both the consumer and the South Australian Tourism Commission's (SATC) team and therefore any consumers with subsequent allocations of vouchers would not have had access to the accommodation deals.

In addition, the SATC had set up this system to automatically manage the vouchers when the data is entered by the consumer. To allow for subsequent allocation of vouchers would require significant manual handling and the cost of any change to vouchers would be prohibitive. This would also create data privacy issues.

Based on how many people were interested in claiming vouchers, we will now offer a second release of vouchers as well as making the booking period longer.