After months of drought, bushfires and coronavirus restrictions, regional New South Wales is finally expecting some relief from Monday when the state’s ban on recreation is lifted.
“We were talking to the captain of the rural fire brigade down at Narooma and he just said ‘look, the kids don’t need to see what’s coming’,” she says.
“People started ringing up and getting a little bit hesitant, then we actually had people ringing up to cancel in tears because they were so compassionate about coming to help us out after the bushfires.”Then on 26 March, Corrinne and countless other regional tourism operators received notice that they would have to close altogether.
By the end of the year, overnight visitors had spent $14.3 billion in regional NSW communities during their stays. “It was pretty frightening. We spent a lot of time helping our neighbours, we had fire trucks and water trucks just to water down the winery building,” he says. “Our number one export market is Japan and our number one customer there is the Bullet Train. They’ve been buying our wine for more than 20 years, buying one container every three or four weeks until now” John says.
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