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Dear Reader

Having reached the Nanna stage of life some years back now gives me the confidence to confess that I must have been inattentive at school so many grandma years ago.

Our tourism honchos keep complaining about the decrease in overseas tourist numbers but don’t seem to consider that this smaller number is staying longer and spending more.

My calculations suggest that we are at least on par with the pre GFC statistics.

Anecdotally – and from my own observations – things have been pretty solid throughout this year.

I had the pleasure of recently spending a week in Las Vegas, an unbelievable place, that boasted if you spent one night in each of the hotel rooms available you would have to sleep there for almost 300 years. Their tourism numbers are really down but the long awaited $9 billion city centre complex, next to Bellagio’s where I stayed, opened just a few days ago and thereby created another 6000 new hotel rooms. Never mind the incredible shopping plazas, circus, restaurants and casinos that go with it all. I would sure hate to be in the industry in that supercalifragilistic city that also reports a drop in overseas visitors that is almost balanced, just like here, by local tourism.

By this comparison I am not sure that we have too much to worry about and therefore on that note I leave you with my very best wishes for the New Year.


Until next month…..

Regards,




Lyndel Elias

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Dear Reader

Having reached the Nanna stage of life some years back now gives me the confidence to confess that I must have been inattentive at school so many grandma years ago.