Article: Fed: Tas and Gold Coast lead east coast tourism boom

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Fed: Tas and Gold Coast lead east coast tourism boom

By Adam Morton

MELBOURNE, April 3 AAP - Tasmania and the Gold Coast are leading a coastal tourist boom driven by Australians looking to holiday close to home.

While international travel has fallen away - the war in Iraq and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) threat this week forced Qantas to reduce its international flights by 20 per cent until mid-July - local tourist markets have had visitor numbers increase since the Bali bombing last October.

Tasmania's peak tourism body said the number of people travelling to the state by ferry jumped by 41 per cent and arrivals by air increased by 29.5 per ...

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