'Completely dropped off': Australia's tourism industry braces for coronavirus crisis

Cairns has already lost $200m in bookings, and Gold Coast operators are expecting to lose $400m, with small businesses worst hit

Ben Woodward has seen some difficult times in the tourism industry, but the Cairns operator says the coronavirus outbreak threatens to beat the lot.

“As an industry, we’ve come through crisis situations before, there’s been Sars, there’s been the GFC, there’s been the pilot strike, but it is looking like one of the worst crisis situations we’ve encountered as an industry.”

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