Finally, some good tourism news. The aviation and cruise industries might be on their knees – with city hotels not far behind – but the $23.1 billion Australian caravan and campervan industry is booming.
A record-breaking 14 million caravan trips were taken by Australians in 2019, up 9 per cent on 2018, according to the 2020 State of Industry report, which will be released this week by the Caravan Industry Association of Australia.
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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
