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Tourism in Australia is underdeveloped.

Tourism is an important part of Australia's economy, accounting for 3.6% of its GDP. However, the relevant departments have recently predicted that due to the international financial crisis, the number of inbound tourists in Australia will decrease by 4% this year, and its tourism industry will face the heaviest blow in the past 20 years.

The shortage of tourists is the biggest trouble for tourism. As Australia's traditional tourist source countries, the economies of the United States, Britain, Japan and South Korea have continued to decline, resulting in a sharp decline in tourists to Australia. According to the forecast of the Australian tourism department, the number of tourists from other source countries will decrease at a double-digit rate in the next six months, except New Zealand. The recession experienced by the tourism industry has also begun to spread to related industries. Up to now, Australia's hotels, motels, apartments and other service industries have laid off more than 3,000 people, and 63% of Australia's major tourism service agencies may further lay off employees.

The aviation industry, which is closely related to tourism, is naturally not immune. Qantas Australia recently announced that it will cut as many as 65,438+0,750 jobs because its expected full-year profit is much lower than previously expected, and said that it is still possible to lay off employees on a large scale in the future. In response to the current challenges, Matt Hingetti, head of the Australian tourism department, pointed out that the Australian tourism industry had experienced many blows before, but they all recovered quickly. But he expressed his belief that "there is a rainbow after the storm"