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Travel Voucher Program

Ms PRATT (Frome) (14:59): My question is to the Minister for Tourism. Is the government considering expanding its travel voucher program to support a wider range of businesses that are also impacted by the harmful algal bloom; if not, why not? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Ms PRATT: On 25 August the government announced a travel voucher program for accommodation experiences, but other coastal businesses, including seafood restaurants, have also been negatively impacted and cannot benefit from the scheme.

The Hon. Z.L. BETTISON (Ramsay—Minister for Tourism, Minister for Multicultural Affairs) (15:00): I thank the member for her question. As we said, we are running out this round of vouchers. There are 20,000 vouchers, and this week I will be reminding South Australians that you have got to be in it to win it, you have to put your name forward for the ballot. There are 20,000 vouchers out there for experiences and for accommodation.

We know that when people have the opportunity to have these vouchers it is a call to action, a call to action to South Australians that they need to stand up and support our tourism providers. What we also know is that when people stay in an area they go out and enjoy experiences, they go to restaurants, they go to cafes. We know this because we have run out vouchers several other times when we built back after COVID and when we were 'Rising Up' for the river. This is what we have done previously and it has worked, and this is what we will continue to do.

We have been very clear that we have a summer plan coming out, and of course we will be ready to stand up for whatever is needed. But we stand by what has worked before, and we know that this call to action to South Australians is responded to, and responded to well. That is why we stand by what we have done, and we will continue to do so.

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