Hotels brace to lose September school holidays

Fiona Carruthers and Tess Bennett

Aug 8, 2021 – 3.38pm

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Tourism operators and hospitality venues could lose a fourth consecutive set of school holidays this September – wiping out yet another $6 billion – after NSW experienced its “darkest day” of the pandemic on Saturday with 319 new cases, resulting in tougher restrictions across Sydney.

By Sunday, Cairns was also in lockdown in Queensland, and it was widely tipped that Victoria’s sixth lockdown could be extended.

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.

Tess Bennett is a technology reporter with The Australian Financial Review, based in the Brisbane newsroom. She was previously the work & careers reporter.