Bold Brisbane tourism plan to make $6.5b a year

As a valued reader of The Courier-Mail, here is an exclusive look at tomorrow’s front and back pages tonight.

As a valued reader of The Courier-Mail, here is an exclusive look at tomorrow’s front and back pages tonight.

Let’s seize the day

TOURISM chiefs are firing up a strategy to boost the sector by $6.5 billion a year by almost doubling the number of visitors to the Brisbane region — and persuading those who already come to stay a day longer.

The plan would create up to 70,000 extra jobs by 2031 and propel the city into the top 100 global destinations.

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And in sport …

Smash Barty

ASHLEIGH Barty rates her French Open quarter-final demolition of Madison Keys as the best claycourt display of her career as the laid-back Queenslander covets drought-breaking Roland Garros success.

“It’s probably the best I’ve played on clay,” Barty said after surging past stunned Keys 6-3 7-5 to reach her maiden grand slam semi-final.

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