FIFO killing local tourism, inquiry told

Michael Cavanagh

A Federal Parliamentary inquiry has heard fly in fly out mining is causing problems for some parts of the tourism sector, including tour and bus operators.

The House of Representatives committee hearing into the effects of FIFO has heard a submission from the Tourism and Transport Forum, the industry's main lobby group.

The forum's director of research and strategy Adele Labine-Romain says while hotel operators in mining centres do well catering to the influx of workers, off the road tourists can't get accommodation and therefore bypass the local attractions.

"That has implications for any of the businesses that are targeting the leisure visitor, because the attractions and tour operators, like the national parks that depend on visitor revenue for their funding, we are really seeing the peripheral organisations struggling in the face of the FIFO phenomena."

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