Owner of McLeod Tours, Lincoln McLeod, has spoken to Sky News about the hardships his family-run business has had to endure over the course of the pandemic.
McLeod Tours is a Western Australia-based business, allowing people to experience the spectacular Margaret River region through a variety of tours.
Mr McLeod said what has been experienced has been financially "extremely difficult".
"Ultimately we need the interstate travel and we can't wait to welcome people to this beautiful part of the world," Mr McLeod told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
Mr Kenny also spoke to the Tourism and Transport Forum CEO Margy Osmond about how the industry is faring.
"I think it's time to read the writing on the wall," Ms Osmond said.
"The tourism industry is uniquely different to everybody else, we are suffering at a rate that nobody else is.
"And if the government wants to have a tourism industry this time next year, they're going to hav
Sydney s five-star Hilton and InterContinental hotels are reported to be among a dozen to quit Australia s quarantine system, piling pressure on ministers to consider alternatives including Covid camps .
Top hotels are pulling out of the quarantine program amid growing industry fears that the spate of recent coronavirus outbreaks leaking out via staff is causing reputational damage to operators.
Australia hasn t felt so isolated from the rest of the world since the jet airliner was invented 70 years ago. But at least we have one thing in our favour: we re right next door to paradise. And while Australia has been congratulating itself for its management of COVID-19, rightly so to a large degree, island nations in the South Pacific have even better pandemic records.
Some neighbouring nations, such as the Cook Islands and Niue, have recorded zero COVID-19 cases while like Samoa, Vanuatu and the Solomons have recorded barely a handful, all in quarantine. Aside from this collective success, they all share in common an enormous dependence on tourism from big brothers Australia and New Zealand.
NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet has accused Queensland of asking taxpayers to bail the state out for the economic hit from its own hardline border closures, as Annastacia Palaszczuk called on the federal government for a JobKeeper extension to prop up her ailing tourism industry. Queensland, closed one day, asking someone else to pick up the tab the next, Mr Perrottet said. People in NSW have not only been banned from entering Queensland, but Queensland wants the taxpayers of NSW to pay for that decision. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has asked for jobKeeper to be extended to help her stateâs ailing tourism industry. Picture: Brian Cassey/NewsWire