Eye on overseas dollars

STRONGER marketing of tourism experiences in Sunraysia’s national parks and natural attractions could be the key to boosting international tourist dollars in our region.It’s comes as the latest International Visitor Survey for the year ending December 2017 revealed regional Victoria attracts only  seven cents of every international tourist dollar.The figures show expenditure from the UK, […]

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