Jason Cronshaw runs bus tours in the iconic New South Wales Blue Mountains and normally has six hop-on, hop-off buses on the road over December and January, but not this summer.
"During some of those days we only ran one bus and that was really just to try and ensure we were still out there servicing the people that were coming out, but we really were running on very few people," Mr Cronshaw said.
His family has run the Fantastic Aussie Tours business for more than four decades.
"In 45 years I have never seen any sort of downturn like this."
The images of the Australian bushfires that were beamed across the world elicited international sympathy and donations but deterred holidaymakers.
A red double-decker bus
Even before the Blue Mountains itself was directly threatened, the tourism downturn began.
"The first cancellation the Blue Mountains received was in September last year, when the fires started on the North Coast [of New South Wales] and that was international travellers who didn't come to Australia," Mr Cronshaw said.
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-11/twin-disasters-coronavirus-bushfires-hit-tourism-sector/11949922
"During some of those days we only ran one bus and that was really just to try and ensure we were still out there servicing the people that were coming out, but we really were running on very few people," Mr Cronshaw said.
His family has run the Fantastic Aussie Tours business for more than four decades.
"In 45 years I have never seen any sort of downturn like this."
The images of the Australian bushfires that were beamed across the world elicited international sympathy and donations but deterred holidaymakers.
A red double-decker bus
Even before the Blue Mountains itself was directly threatened, the tourism downturn began.
"The first cancellation the Blue Mountains received was in September last year, when the fires started on the North Coast [of New South Wales] and that was international travellers who didn't come to Australia," Mr Cronshaw said.
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-11/twin-disasters-coronavirus-bushfires-hit-tourism-sector/11949922
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