As we all know, although our Grand Western Australia mountain and water show, there are countless beautiful scenic spots, but under the influence of a variety of reasons, tourism, has not become a major industry in Western Australia, only contribute less than 2% of the GDP. every yea
In fact, although the proportion is not much, but if can steadily develop, also has the first day.
However, a series of figures recently released by the Australian tourist Board have undoubtedly poured a great deal of cold water on the tourism industry in Western Australia, which is already not a major part of the economy:
In 2017, visitors spent a total of 41.3 billion Australian dollars in Australia, the highest year ever. Up 6% from 2016.
However, Western Australia has become Australia's only state with both indicators falling against a backdrop of sharp increases in the number of tourists and the amount of money spent in other states.
Among them, the number of tourists fell by 1%, with only about nine hundred and forty five thousand nine hundred and ninety nine tourists coming to Western Australia for the whole year.
You know, even the northern territories have grown!
In terms of tourism spending, Western Australia also saw a 5.5 per cent decline, with only about 2 billion of the larger plates worth more than 40 billion Australian dollars, which was speechless.
It is also worth noting that tourists from mainland China officially overtook New Zealand in 2017 to become the largest group of visitors to Australia.
Their astonishing purchasing power also impressed Australians, who accounted for 10.4 billion of all 41.3 billion Australian dollars spent on tourism.
In other words, Chinese tourists alone spent nearly five times more money in Australia in 2017 than all tourists spent in Western Australia combined.
In the face of such a fact, I do not know how people feel.
Western Australia Tourism Council Evan Hall bluntly said it was a "incredibly disappointing result" (incredibly disappointing result).
“The truth is the state is not promoting itself as well as other states are”
"the truth is, Western Australia has not promoted itself (in terms of tourism) like the rest of the states."
South Australia and Tata, for example, have far less international routes than Perth, but last year their number of international tourists grew by 20 percent, Mr. Hall said.
"We do not even have a travel marketing person in West Australia to lead the travel industry forward.
These jobs are now part-time by the Director-General of the Ministry of Tourism, Science and Innovation, whose experience and energy in tourism do not meet the needs. "
In fact, Mr. Hall said, government should give private tourism companies more opportunities, and he knows tourism from the private sector has invested as much as 100 million Australian dollars, but government has been cracking down on these investors.
Some, for example, offered to build a taxiway from Elizabeth Bay to South Perth, and others wanted to pay 25 million Australian dollars to build a surfing theme park on the Swan River, all of which were rejected by the government.
In fact, not long ago, the Scarborough Les Deux Tours apartment, which was set to invest 400m Australian dollars, was also forced to abort because of local government concerns affecting the quality of life of local residents.
Over the past two years, Mr. Hall said, only Kings Park's Segway balance car tour has been a relatively new experience throughout Western Australia.
"the reality is, you can't just post a photo of Cottesloe Beach to attract visitors. It's not the only beautiful beach in the world, "Mr. Hall said.
In fact, Western Australia, Perth's road, we have discussed this issue many times. Although we all hope there will be great progress here, it seems that government and many locals do not think so.
Perhaps a peaceful, far from the noise, self-sufficiency of the world, closer to their ideal Perth look.
However, if tourism can flourish, won't it make life better for the local people?
Why is Western Australia so "different" when Tata's government is developing tourism?
These questions, you need to think about themselves. The editor can only use the words of tourism director Paul Papalia to comfort everyone: it will be fine, everything will be fine, the number of tourists will pick up between September and December this year.
I hope so.