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Free $200 vouchers to spend on holidays are up for grabs from TOMORROW – here’s how you can get your hands on one
- Victorian regional tourism vouchers will be available for travellers from Friday
- Vouchers will entice travellers to support struggling regional tourism industry
- The vouchers follow similar programs in South Australia and Northern Territory
Australian holidaymakers are being urged to snap up travel vouchers and help kick start tourism in bushfire and COVID-19 affected parts of the country.
Victoria’s regional tourism voucher program will begin on Friday offering each household the chance to apply for one of 120,000 vouchers worth $200 each.
The first 40,000 vouchers will be released at the launch, before the remainder will be rolled out in stages for travel until the end of May 2021.
Victoria’c Tourism Minister Martin Pakula expects the scheme to be very popular, especially the first stage, which is for travel between December 12 and January 22.
‘I would expect demand to potentially outstrip supply, that’s been experienced in other parts of the country,’ he said.
Holidaymakers are being urged to travel regionally in Australia with tourism vouchers launched in three states. Pictured: a woman poses on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia
Households can register for the vouchers from 10am on Friday, and will receive the $200 after their trip.
But tourists will have to spend a minimum of $400 on accommodation, experiences or tours in regional Victoria, as well as at least two nights in accommodation, to be eligible for the scheme.
‘We’re not handing out $200 up front, there’s got to be some appropriate rigour in this for the state,’ Mr Pakula said.
Destinations in the Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula and the Bellarine will be eligible for the scheme, and households can apply even if their travel has already been booked.
The $28million travel voucher scheme was announced in the state budget in November as past of a $300million tourism package, which also allocated money to upgrade infrastructure along the Great Ocean Road, and at Wilsons Promontory and the Grampians.
The tourism program kicks off as Victoria reached 41 days without a new locally-acquired coronavirus case on Thursday, and the state reopens to international travellers after one of the harshest lockdowns in the world.
Victorian regional tourism vouchers will be available for travellers from Friday. Pictured: Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula
South Australia’s Great State vouchers will become available for interstate travellers on January 5.
The vouchers include $100 to spend on accommodation in Adelaide city and North Adelaide and $50 in suburban and regional South Australia.
Successful applicants have from January 7 to 31 to book with their voucher and must travel between January 7 and March 31.
The first release of the Northern Territory $200 Tourism Voucher from the second round of registrations have already been allocated, with more vouchers to be released.
Vouchers are available to Territorians 18 and over who contribute $200 of their own money, with the $16.2million package aimed at encouraging locals to support the struggling tourism industry.
Applicants will have their $200 reimbursed if they book a trip more than 400km away from their permanent residence.
The second round will run until January 31.
The vouchers follow similar programs in South Australia and Northern Territory. Pictured: a couple watch the sunset at Gunlom in Kakadu National Park
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