Lobbying records disclose tourism promoters requested 39 top-level meetings with cabinet members, MPs and federal staff after the government cut funding for travel promotion. “If we don’t reach out we’re not heard,” said David Goldstein, CEO of the Tourism Industry Association. One government official told Blacklock’s the budget reductions were “radical.”
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