The head of Tasmania's powerful hotels association credits his contact book with helping ensure mainland construction workers were exempted from mandatory coronavirus quarantine and able to finish building Hobart's newest hotel.
The head of Tasmania's powerful hotels association has credited his contact book with helping ensure mainland construction workers were able to finish building Hobart's newest hotel in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.Everyone, except people deemed "essential travellers", must quarantine for two weeks after arriving in Tasmania
Opening Crowne Plaza on Tuesday, Tasmanian Hospitality Association chief executive Steve Old personally thanked senior bureaucrat Tim Baker for helping ensure some of the project's construction workers were exempt from quarantine upon arrival in Tasmania. "There were no rules broken or anything like that, it was probably just as much for me having contacts to make sure they could get to the right people quickly to get the authorisation approved or not," Mr Old said.People deemed "essential travellers" are allowed to skip Tasmania's strict 14-day mandatory quarantine.
The Premier said no strings had been pulled, and emphasised the process had been managed "at arm's length from me". Kalis Group chief executive Alexia Kalis said the Tasmanian Government was "fantastic to help us get those specialist [workers] in" for the hotel, which has already taken more than $1 million in bookings.
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