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Canberra Tourist Bureau
(Question No. 33)
Mr Whalan: On 18 October 1989 Mrs Nolan asked me the following question:
(1) What number of bookings including bed nights and revenue for each hotel, motel and motor inn in the ACT came from the Canberra Tourist Bureau at:
(a) Jolimont Centre;
(b) Visitor Information Centre, Northbourne Avenue;
(c) Sydney Office; and
(d) Melbourne Office
for the months of June, July and August 1989.
(2) What was the total number of ACT establishments used from each of the four booking offices.
(3) What number of bookings including bed nights and revenue for each hotel, motel and motor inn in Queanbeyan, NSW, came from the Canberra Tourist Bureau at:
(a) Jolimont Centre;
(b) Visitor Information Centre, Northbourne Avenue;
(c) Sydney Office; and
(d) Melbourne Office
for the months of June, July and August 1989.
My answer to the member's question is as follows:
(1) In response to the first question the figures for the total value of accommodation booked through the bureau are as follows:
JUNE JULY AUGUST
$ $ $
JOLIMONT CENTRE 24,398 19,563 29,686
VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE 29,558 35,861 28,297
SYDNEY OFFICE 24,030 28,585 33,029
MELBOURNE OFFICE 29,803 9,760 35,103
107,789 93,769 126,115
Booking numbers, including bed nights, are not currently available from the Canberra Tourist Bureau's computer system. This information would have to be obtained manually and analysed using a specially written computer program. This would be a time consuming and costly exercise and would involve an extensive use of staff resources which I am not prepared to authorise.
It would also be inappropriate for me to provide revenue figures for each hotel, motel or motor inn as this information is of a commercial-in-confidence nature.
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