Hello all,

As we start moving into the early recovery period, I just wanted to wish you all the best for the obvious reasons. Not sure about you but I have at times been rather dizzy pivoting, re-pivoting, then again trying to make my way through the abundance of information coming in thick and fast.  

UPDATED COVID-19 RECOVERY RESTRICTIONS [22nd of May 2020]
The SA Government announced changes to the easing of COVID-19 restrictions:

• From Friday 22 May, all cafes and restaurants will be permitted to seat up to a total of 20 patrons (10 inside and 10 outside) as well as sell alcohol to diners.
• From Friday June 5, all pubs across the state will be permitted to open (i.e. Step 2 of recovery roadmap brought forward from June 8 for the long weekend).
• See the new roadmap HERE.

Further information about cellar doors and Factsheets from SA Health for tour operators will be coming soon.  

EYRE PENINSULA HASHTAG CAMPAIGN

In collaboration with the 10 councils which are members of the Eyre Peninsula Tourism Advisory Committee, we have launched our new hashtag campaign #fresheyre #timetodream #uncrowded in response to COVID-19. 
These hashtags are stylised into graphics for use on social media, including as gif stickers, so you can include these graphics on your Instagram and Facebook stories as of NOW. We've also had the words Eyre Peninsula, Port Lincoln, Tumby Bay, Coffin Bay, Elliston, Ceduna, Cleve, Cowell, Streaky Bay, Nullarbor, Kimba, Wudinna, Cummins, and Fowlers Bay stylised as gifs as well, so you are free to use them on your posts!

DELOITTE ROADMAP TO RECOVERY WORKBOOK

SATC’s Deloitte webinar has a really interested in a workbook to help small businesses to plan where they are and where they want to go. It’s a useful document to use if you’re not sure how to structure your recovery planning.  CLICK HERE

SATC DESTINATION DEVELOPMENT WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU

If you have a spare few minutes, please complete the survey to help the SATC team better understand your business, your target markets, current circumstances and future vision – specifically in relation to working in the Tourism Distribution System. Through completing this survey our team will be able to provide a more fitting level of support to meet your requirements. The team will be working through responses and next steps over the coming months. CLICK HERE

COVID-19 IMPACT ON JOBS AND WAGES

There’s a tool now available to map big data on jobs and wages from 10,000,000 Australians during the recession. The jobs data is now being collected weekly via the Tax Office one touch payroll system and published fortnightly by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The map can be viewed HERE

COVID-19 SAFE HYGIENE PRACTICES

There are a number of programs/toolkits that are available to business to ensure safe hygiene practices.

• The COVID-Clean Toolkit is a collaboration between the State and Commonwealth Governments to help SA businesses feel confident re-opening as COVID-19 restrictions ease. To be delivered by local registered training providers, participants will learn a range of skills, including hand hygiene practices, effective surface cleaning, use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and disposal of contaminated waste. Register your interest HERE
• Quality Tourism Accredited businesses have access to the COVID Clean Practicing Business module in the Quality Tourism Framework dashboard. It’s free and is designed to provide customised checklists to support businesses in their effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 and drive consumer confidence. Once completed, businesses will receive a tailored cleaning plan for immediate use. REGISTER HERE
• Below are some resources that might help to plan with cleaning and safety regimes:
  • National COVID-19 Coordination Commission - My Business's COVIDSafe Plan
  • Safe Work Australia Cleaning Checklist
  • Safe Work Australia Cleaning FAQs
  • Federal Department of Health Cleaning Principles
  • SA Health Cleaning and Disinfection Factsheet

EYRE PENINSULA VISITOR GUIDE AND THE NULLARBOR MAP UPDATE

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In March we were just about to go to market with the sale of the 2020 EP Visitor Guide and the Nullarbor with our partner HWR Media.  In light of the current restrictions, the launch of the new EP visitor guide and the Nullarbor Map will be evaluated on a month by month basis as we currently have plenty of the VG in stock but limited of the Nullarbor Map  If you would like stock of the current printed EP guide (boxes of 48) or the The Nullarbor map (boxes of 160) and you don’t have log on details with WINC just CONTACT ME and we can get stock to you.  

Watch this space....a BRAND new Eyre Peninsula Tourism Website is currently in construction for launch in July.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this email, or any issues or further clarification, I invite you to phone on 0417 811 622 or email

With kindness,
Sondra Stewart
Tourism Development Manager
Regional Development Australia Eyre Peninsula

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