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According to media reports and latest National Visitor Survey, domestic travel to the Sunshine Coast is booming during the COVID-19,

The survey covers the 1 July 2020 to 30 September quarter, which is when Queensland’s border was closed to New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia but the Sunshine Coast still saw a 39.7% increase in intrastate visitors compared to the same period last year.

Although  overall visitor numbers were down, the Sunshine Coast recorded the lowest decrease of all Queensland regions, down by 3.7% during that quarter.

Former Fiji Tourism CEO and now Visit Sunshine Coast CEO Matt Stoeckel said that  the results showed that the policy of targeting the intrastate market had insulated the region from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact, targeting over three million residents within a 300 kilometre radius of the Sunshine Coast, with the region having switched its strategy to focussing on targeting the drive market to alleviate the declines from interstate and international,

A report by John Alwyn-Jones