A new round of travel vouchers has been announced as part of a support package to boost tourism recovery across regional Victoria.
Acting Premier James Merlino said the latest round of regional travel vouchers would encourage Victorians to support attractions and accommodation providers across the State once it was safe to do so.
“Victorians will have access to 80,000 regional travel vouchers valued at $200 each to help operators affected by the current restrictions recover strongly,” Mr Merlino said.
“The $32.2 million Regional Tourism Support Package will also provide accommodation, attraction and experience providers with grant top-ups worth up to $4,500 per business, while alpine businesses will receive up to $15,000 to help them provide a COVIDSafe ski season,” he said.
“A $16 million investment will fund a fourth release of popular regional travel vouchers – 10,000 new vouchers and 70,000 vouchers allocated through previous rounds but not claimed.”
Mr Merlino said Victorians snapped up 160,000 regional travel vouchers during the first three rounds of the Regional Travel Voucher Scheme and 40,000 for the Melbourne Travel Voucher Scheme.
Mr Merlino said more than 88,000 regional vouchers had been claimed so far and a release date for the latest round of vouchers would be announced soon.
He said the travel period for round three of the Regional Travel Voucher Scheme would be extended by three weeks so people whose plans were affected by the circuit-breaker restrictions could still explore regional Victoria at a subsidised price.
