With most of WA's COVID restrictions ending tomorrow, hospitality and events businesses gear up for what they hope will be a bumper winter of revellers returning to Perth's CBD.
"We need events and facilities, or amenities, that get people into the city."
"More events down on the foreshore, for example, a greater use of the foreshore, all the way through to the other side of Northbridge."That will also be helped by $4 million from the state government, to be divvied up into grants worth as much as $100,000, for organisations to hold events in the city.
"But that doesn't hide the fact that we have substantial issues in terms of getting going again, particularly around workforce and attracting people back," he said.And with WA's return to normality lagging behind the rest of the world by a few months, trying to convince skilled workers to return west won't be an easy prospect.
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