Business
by Jeremy Pierce
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Tourism bosses fear losing an entire generation of experience as workers desert the industry for better job security.
The giant strides made in recent years to convince school leavers that tourism is a genuine career path are at risk of being wiped out as skilled workers ranging from dive masters to marine engineers contemplate career changes with the looming end of the JobKeeper program.
Tourism traditionally accounts for one in nine Queensland jobs and already, thousands of skilled tourism workers have been lost to the industry, with predictions that up to 25,000 more could lose their jobs in the fallout from the end of the JobKeeper program.