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Nominations for the 2022 Queensland Tourism Awards are now open. Photo: Australian Age of Dinosaurs.
The Queensland Tourism Awards (QTAs) have returned with a bang to celebrate Queensland’s biggest year of intrastate travel since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
A report from Tourism and Events Queensland stated that in 2021, Queensland experienced a 9.1 per cent increase in intrastate holiday travel, with 7.3 million Queenslanders holidaying in their own backyard.