Alice Springs | Call it trainspotting Outback style. When Alice Springs residents want to measure the health of the local tourism trade, they don’t turn to official government figures, daily air traffic, nor even hotel occupancy rates.
“The Ghan arrived this morning with seven Platinum carriages,” Ric Farmer, co-director of the Yubu Napa Art Gallery, tells AFR Weekend. Usually it has three.
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Fiona Carruthers has written and edited travel for the Financial Review for almost a decade. She has held senior roles with ABC Radio National, Deutsche Welle Radio, TIME and The Australian, and was deputy editor of Traveller. Email Fiona at fcarruthers@afr.com
