Австралийцы об Австралии.

http://www.theage.com.au/travel/blogs/travellers-check/why-australia-is-out-of-fashion/20100802-1125p.html

Кто хочет - может полную статью прочитать, я же приведу только самую, так сказать, мякотку из комментов простых австралийцев, заебавшихся местным чудо-сервисом.

Forget about the fast trains the rest of the developed world has that we can't organise or the fast broadband internet system the federal government is attempting to impose on an unwilling telco industry: we can't even organise a successful advertising campaign to attract tourists.

It's very simple, the issue is cost, and cost alone.
Yes, we have beautiful beaches and coral, but so does SE Asia. And there, you can get a room for $15/night and drink beers for a dollar. Or, if you've got plenty to spend, you can also get a private villa and a butler for about 20% what you'd pay over here.
Basically, the fact that you can now, for the most part, travel safely around SE Asia, Africa and South America means that people are far more likely to want to sit on a plane for 6-8 hours, rather than 20, and also get the opportunity to at least feel like they are getting off the beaten track a little bit.
Domestic tourism is the only market that will be grown by advertising and marketing, and even that loses out because although the airfare is double, you'll well and truly make your money back on food and drink when comparing Qld with Phuket or Bali.
Australia is the best place in the world, but we're not THAT much better that people are willing to spend triple as much to enjoy her fruits.

In the case of our major cities, why would you want to come anyway? Sydney and Melbourne used to be great places to visit. Now they are just congested dumps like so much of the rest of the world thanks to the "Big Australia" policies of recent years. Why would you fly 15+ hours and pay a fortune once you get here to see that? I wouldn't.

I travel all over the world continually. Sorry, fellow Aussies, but we are one of the least hospitable countries in the world. We have little sense of the hospitality that is a given in more long-standing cultures. It is a mindset here. As soon as you get to immigration you can feel it. Americans tried to copy our xenophobic reality show, Border Security, but they just couldn't cut the mustard as far as hillbilly paranoia about visitors goes.

Agree with you but it seems that once you leave the beach and other outdoor activities then you hit a snag. Have had visitors from New York who beside from going to restaurants didn't even want to enjoy "the nightlife". Their feeling was the beaches are beautiful, the weather is amazing and there are too many psychotic drunks running around. I don't think it is necessarily a tourist problem that needs a new marketing campaign but an Australian social problem. We are used to it but visitors are appalled and then they tell their friends...