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06/04/11

Industry calls for visa changes to boost tourist travel

As China becomes the number one source of international tourist arrivals for the first time, Australia’s Tourism and Transport Forum (TTF) has called for a changes to the ‘highly bureaucratic, cumbersome and expensive tourism visa application processes’ that are currently in place. Sounds eminently sensible – anything we can do to improve visitation from a variety of markets could help to offset anticipated declines from Japan and New Zealand, two of our top 5 international markets.