This year's schoolies will be swapping clubs for campsites as year 12 students find alternative ways to celebrate the end of their school lives amid coronavirus restrictions and border closures | natassiazc
Meanwhile other students are battling to obtain refunds for schoolies trips booked well before the pandemic took hold.
"[Schoolies] is a celebration of the end of the year with others who have been in your shoes and had the same year you had. It's quite unifying sharing that. It will be a bit of a different celebration now," she said. But there are still ways to celebrate creatively. "For those staying home there'll be house parties and events like fridge-to-fridge where they do a 'pub crawl' walking from house to house in a suburb dressed up in costumes with drinks, snacks, music and games at each house," he said.Regional mayors have warned schoolies will need to obey public health orders and COVID-safe guidelines, but some are welcoming the potential for tourism expenditure.
However, other regions warned they may not cope with an influx of young tourists from the city. In the Tweed Shire, just north of Byron, mayor Katie Milne said a third of residents were over 60 and vulnerable to the virus. "Council has never called for schoolies to come to Tweed and we certainly won't be this year," she said.
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