The number of tourists coming to the Territory continues to be significantly down weeks into this year’s peak visitor season with hotel occupancy rates at only 56 per cent for May, despite the Fyles Government’s claims of injecting $35.5 million to boost the local tourism sector.

Tourism operators blamed the persistent cost-of-living crisis, costly air travel, and tourists’ preference to travel overseas as the main factors that continue to pull down the local industry.

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