Tasmania’s tourism lobby has ended its agreement with the forestry industry amid concerns from operators that logging is jeopardising the state’s ‘clean and green’ image.
Chief executive of the Tourism industry council of Tasmania, Luke Martin, has agreed that although forestry is a major pillar of the tasmanian economy, the council understands the concerns of their own tourism operators around climate change and the role of forestry.
The agreement ended hours after more than 180 Tourism operators signed an open letter to call for the end of the tourism and forestry protocol.