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Speaker 1: And I mentioned cruise season coming to Adelaide. The Diamond

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Speaker 1: Princess arrives at out of Harbor tomorrow today this morning,

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Speaker 1: it is docked at Port Lincoln and Naomi Blacker is

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Speaker 1: manager of Economic Development and Tourism Economic Development and Tourism

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Speaker 1: at Port Lincoln Council. Naomi, good morning. What's it looked

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Speaker 1: like with the ship there in the harbor? It must

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Speaker 1: be an impressive site.

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Speaker 2: They always look fantastic. We've got a beautiful harbor here,

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Speaker 2: and the ships, whether they're on the north or west

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Speaker 2: or east side of the wharf, they look majestic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely so. People off at the moment starting to

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Speaker 1: make their way around the town.

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Speaker 2: Yes, where I am right now, I can see our

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Speaker 2: passengers coming off the ship and making their way down

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Speaker 2: to our pop up visitor center.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful. Is today as beautiful there as it is here?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know what it's like there.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful it is, right So it's blue.

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Speaker 2: Skies here in sunshine, a little bit of a breeze,

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Speaker 2: but still a lovely day.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So they'll have a good day wherever there and

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Speaker 1: where do they go? Tell us about what you expect

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Speaker 1: to have and okay, this is the first and there'll

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Speaker 1: be others there throughout the seas and that'll stop at

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Speaker 1: Port Lincoln. But where do they go on the peninsula.

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Speaker 2: So about five hundred odd passengers from the ship are

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Speaker 2: going on shore excursions today, So that will take them

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Speaker 2: out into the hinterland around Port Lincoln as far as

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Speaker 2: Coffin Bay, some of our national parks and beaches. Quite

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Speaker 2: a few of them stay in town and they'll walk

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Speaker 2: around or get on our hop on, hop off bus

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Speaker 2: which will take them to key attractions around the town center.

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Speaker 2: And a number of them will stay and wander around

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Speaker 2: the town on foot and visit all of our shops

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Speaker 2: and retail outlets and dining establishments and yeah, generally have

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Speaker 2: a lovely time within the township itself.

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Speaker 1: It's becoming more common that these big ships and that's

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Speaker 1: what this is. It's not a time, it's not a ferry,

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Speaker 1: you know. This is a proper cruise ship going to

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Speaker 1: the regions. It must inject a lot of money. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, is it millions in terms of spending over

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Speaker 1: all over a summer.

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Speaker 2: Well, the twenty two twenty three season had some figures

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Speaker 2: done by the Australian Crews Association for Port Lincoln, and

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Speaker 2: there was twelve ships that year and the direct spend

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Speaker 2: into the town was something like seven million dollars, and

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Speaker 2: when you include the indirect spend it was more like

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Speaker 2: sixteen millions. So it does make a significant contribution to

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Speaker 2: our local economy.

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Speaker 1: How many have you got coming by this year? We've

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Speaker 1: got ten, okay, all right, and big ones as well,

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Speaker 1: like obviously this won the Diamond Princess.

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Speaker 2: The majority are the largest ships, so the average size

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Speaker 2: of the larger ships is around two to three thousand

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Speaker 2: passengers past one thousand crew. We have a few smaller

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Speaker 2: ships as well, but it's the big ships with the

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Speaker 2: crew that come in and spend quite widely in the

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Speaker 2: community and quite surprising where they do spend their money

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Speaker 2: because you've got crew on the ship that obviously aren't

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Speaker 2: on holidays and so they have need of supermarket goods

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Speaker 2: and chemist goods, et cetera. So they spend is quite

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Speaker 2: wide and varied.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really interesting because you'd think the red and

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Speaker 1: years ago, of course, they just didn't go to the regions.

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Speaker 1: What's changed, is it essay tourism that have pushed for it.

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Speaker 1: What's happened.

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Speaker 2: We've had cruise ships coming here for quite some time,

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Speaker 2: but the number of ships coming has increased. The most

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Speaker 2: we've had in one year was about thirteen. That was

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Speaker 2: just before COVID. The Tourism Commission definitely see an opportunity here.

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Speaker 2: We work collectively with the Tourism Commission and Flinder's Port

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Speaker 2: to get the ships here. I think too, it's about

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Speaker 2: it as an awareness piece. So the more that the

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Speaker 2: Tourism Commission attends the events at Sea Trade et cetera

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Speaker 2: overseas and sprooks South Australia and the regions to the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I imagine passengers on board some might think where

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Speaker 1: the heck are we port? What? But there is a

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Speaker 1: lot to say. It's so pretty Port Lincoln for anyone

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Speaker 1: see and do the new marina around there. And I

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Speaker 2: Well absolutely, and it's really interesting the feedback that we get.

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Speaker 2: They head off to their day early in the morning

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Speaker 2: late afternoon, I should say, we get such wonderful feedback

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Speaker 2: which it often does, not always, but often, that was

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Speaker 2: me how lucky I was to live here. He came

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Speaker 2: back in the afternoon and told me he'd bought a house.

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Speaker 2: All the time, but yeah, that was a pretty big

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Speaker 1: Was that a plan when he got off the ship?

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Speaker 2: I think it possibly was, but he didn't didn't tell

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Speaker 2: he was just so excited that he'd caught up with

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Speaker 1: How about that, Well, that's that's a mission on a

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Speaker 1: cruise holiday, go and buy a house at one of

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Speaker 1: the stops. That's amazing. So all right, that's that's quite

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Speaker 1: the purchase. And we' have helped the local economy no end,

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Speaker 1: I imagine. So the first of ten you said this summer,

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Speaker 2: Yes, I have it on good authority from Megan from

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Speaker 2: Kangaro Island who had this yesterday that they're all very

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Speaker 2: happy passengers, which is what we want. So I'm sure

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Speaker 2: they're going to have a great day today.

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Speaker 1: Are they? The two stops in say Ki and Port Lincoln.

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Speaker 1: Is there anywhere else they drop off it?

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Speaker 2: Hello? Yeah, there are other locations. We also have quite

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Speaker 2: a few expedition ships come over to the Air Peninsula

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Speaker 2: and all around South Australia and they don't tend to

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Speaker 2: come into major ports like this. They'll go to Coffin

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Speaker 2: Bay and some of the islands in the area and

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Speaker 2: tender in and have experiences on the island. So they're

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Speaker 2: much smaller and they've got a different kind of slant.

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Speaker 2: I guess the URIs is quite different. But you also

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Speaker 2: there's Wallaroo and there's the Southeast who are definitely wanting

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Speaker 2: to get cruise ships there. Sometimes that requires Wallaroo has

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Speaker 2: a wharf. The other locations they will have to tender in,

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Speaker 2: So it's really about trying to build those ports as well,

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Speaker 2: so that we have quite a few options for Creu's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Walaru, I mean it's it's quite a deep port

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Speaker 1: southeast due that's interesting, a lot shallower. So as you say,

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Speaker 1: tender into the jetties.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well, they tend at Keango Island and Kangaro Island

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Speaker 2: gets something like thirty ship this season, so it's it's

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Speaker 2: not something that's unusual. Customers are passengers the use of

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Speaker 2: that so at the ships, so it is a possibility

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Speaker 2: for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, interesting, Thank you for your time, Naomi,

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Speaker 1: Pleasure good cat. Likewise, Naomi Blacker, Manager and Economic Development

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Speaker 1: and Tourism at Port Lincoln Council