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as well as we're all sort of not looking forward but bracing for those visit our arrival numbers over January and in particularly February but how bad are you anticipating this could be you know it's it's really serious it's it's going to be difficult to ascertain how big an impact it has but whereas the Qantas businesses is quite well hedge in terms a very strong domestic a domestic side of their operations in terms of three important profitability from a international tourism perspective we are quite leveraged towards China it's been a real success story it's been decades of government-to-government successful engagement as well as the industry side so it's 12 billion dollars out of a 48 billion dollar a year earnings earnings sort of framework so it's it's a significant part of our industry and it's been a very strongly growing part of our industry and until probably more recently because the problem is not just the lock down in China and Visitors you know who otherwise would have visited being prevented from leaving the country or you know being prevented from entering Australia but even before that with the bush fires you know these horrible images of burning koalas of the country on fire I mean global visitors would be turned off by that yeah they will be I mean we're very resilient sector and there's a lot of work being done behind the scenes and just as I mean our industry is really probably over over performed in the past 10 15 years with a long-term strategy we've got you know great airline support we've Qantas but also we've got open skies so a lot of competition in which Qantas does well but also you know large carry is also competing very for a growing pie a lot of Australians travel so we've had this nice two-way type of market which is growing well above GDP that that the challenge will be is is what does coronavirus mean for individual businesses households and where Australia sits on the bucket list in terms of visitation and that's that's the challenge at the moment I think the jury's out clearly there's a travel ban in place in terms of China between China and Australia and that's up for a weekly review but the sense is that that will continue for some period of time we're over well overall actually very optimistic that we can bounce back as a sector but it is troubling and you know we believe we've seen some falls in markets such as Japan even New Zealand and so these are you know should be more resilient in the current market Simon we're getting the latest headlines out of Japan local media NHK saying the two people from the diamond ship cruise that was quarantine in Yokohama have died from coronavirus of course they've been quarantine for over two weeks and we had seen more than 600 infections NHK now saying that two people from that Yokohama crews have died from the corona virus infection we have heard from the chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Azuga earlier today saying that the quarantine was effective that infections were gradually falling now NHK saying that two people have died from that cruise ship one in seven people have been infected but Simon we continue to see these infections spreading now especially on these cruise ships and really a surprising fallout with a few of those cruise ships that have really received tons of scrutiny over potential infections what does it say about the future of Australian tourism and how important the tourism sector is for the Australian economy overall and how big of an impact do you see going forward in the next few months yeah it's a great question look I mean the straight tourism industry it's it's our largest services export it's a it's a touch over three percent of our GDP the forward planning also that moved towards four percent of our GDP it's significant industry employs a million Australian side I mean it's the public health response by the Australian Government has been second to none I went with there's 15 15 cases of corona virus in country which were which were visitors from abroad which came in were captured when the I guess the wall came down in terms of the travel ban out of mainland China and they've been really well managed and in essence I've been managed through the system and had no deaths from coronavirus here so in I actually think we're really well placed it's a matter of can the virus be a well contained within China it's obviously a significant amount of effort and resource around that the Australian Government is right across this industry is well appraised we actually the position we have is that at some point we do need to see the travel ban lifted between us Australia and China but it needs to be when it's good and ready and that we are able to pivot very quickly and get back into that market because it's a significant one and it should respond well as Alan Joyce alluded to it should respond well such as the SAR situation it should come back quite quickly but you know we've got to we've got to keep an eye to the fact that we're in a new normal here and and young people may will not not travel as much as they were and we are a long-haul destination particularly from an international perspective and we need to take that into consideration in terms of some future planning how many people already stopped traveling a little bit because of the ongoing months of the bush fires in Australia well in essence it's become a flatter market I mean I'm regrettably our tourism data is whilst it's very it they get to get together very quickly it's a little bit back backward-facing so we won't really see the the numbers come through until you know probably number three or four weeks so we've been calling on it from an industry perspective that we really get a good feel for the existing numbers you know it has flattened and there's no question that domestically would be in Australia January is a very strong travel month for Australians get around their own country and and and popular pockets were restricted because of the fires so what that was drive tourism but obviously there was some flying there as well so we're quite optimistic I mean we means a lot of pessimism going around I mean we're we're a people in a country that loves travel or both receiving visitors and us getting around so we're just going to end the fact that coronavirus is not is not here it's being it's been trapped I think puts sets us up very well for the for that rebound and then includes the international visitors it's interesting it's almost fatalistic this idea of Australia's fortunes are so tied to China and obviously that's where the economic boom has come from but for example we had record Indian tourists arriving in Australia how much effort is being made in terms of promotion and investment in diversifying beyond China well there's a lot there I mean so China has been the miracle market for us without question and then the the India's the Indonesia's and the US has actually been a very strong performing marker it's been up about 5% compound over recent years so with tourism Australia in the Australian Government I mean TI's the marketing arm have always had a suite of markets to look at and the underpinning element of Australia isn't been the domestic side of it so it's a one hundred fifty billion dollar australian visitor economy and about a hundred billion of that is the domestic market of australians traveling to and through their own country so it's always had that underpinning and really it's been this international growth in the last five or ten years of Miss Tennessee developed so well I need to ask about climate because reputationally Australia's taking a hit after the bush fires we're now getting this me report that previously seemed to be pristine parts of the Great Barrier Reef are seeing bleaching as well is the fact that there's no sort of coherent energy and climate policy from the government hurting the tourism side of things as well yeah that's gonna hurt longer-term it's hurt currently in terms of album each week we had a very poor image portrayed about country completely different and completely reversed to what we so used to seeing and what people that know our country is so used to seeing this beautiful natural pristine environment was going up in flames now the reality was it wasn't quite the case but six million-plus hectares of land and and hundreds of thousands of native wildlife for loss and of course we lost over thirty lives as well so it's tragic and we know there's a brand issue there and the government is listening but we are we're agitating as well as an industry we need to see a much more frank discussion around these things climate you so carbon neutrality as a destination needs to be an aspiration for us as an industry and we're working towards that the reality is you do need to burn some carbon if you travel on a long haul flight here so we're gonna work at ways of how that's mitigated in terms of that destination and it's one of the challenges and indeed the opportunities were there to look at