“The best way to support Australia, Australian communities, and the tourism sector is to keep visiting,” says Tourism Australia on its bushfire information resources web page.
“If you cannot travel to an affected area due to bushfires, one of the many ways to help includes rescheduling instead of canceling …”
If you didn’t already know, your correspondent is based in Australia. A lot of the time, anyway. And away from the recent conflagrations, fortunately.
There are a lot of places in Australia that are a long way from those fires. Australia is a very big country as you probably know. Yet many of the fire maps you may have seen on social media are terribly misleading, making it look like the whole country is on fire. Your correspondent has seen these maps shared by tourism professionals in tourism professional groups. Very unprofessional.
Several years ago there were large and very dangerous bushfires in the South West of Western Australia, not very far from Walpole where your correspondent spends a lot of his time ... Read the full story at https://goodtourismblog.com/2020/01/her-beauty-and-her-terror-the-wide-brown-land-australia-is-open-for-business/