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Caution and optimism as crises-hit Bright reopens to tourists

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cmtoo 30-May-20, 20:47	Caution and optimism as crises-hit Bright reopens to tourists In the high country town of Bright, now a May postcard of autumnal orange and brown, conversations the last week invariably turned to the easing coronavirus restrictions, and mostly ended in questions and nervous shrugs of shoulders. No one knows what to expect when, from Monday, the people come back to Bright, effectively ending the town's five-month shutdown, which began with the Black Summer bushfires in January. Accommodation providers say the phones never ran so hot as last week in the hours after Premier Daniel Andrews announced that Victorians could soon venture to the regions for overnight stays. Locals are generally grateful and optimistic, if not desperate, but some also fear tourists will bring more than dollars to a town so far untouched by COVID-19 cases. From The Age

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30-May-20, 20:47

Caution and optimism as crises-hit Bright reopens to tourists

In the high country town of Bright, now a May postcard of autumnal orange and brown, conversations the last week invariably turned to the easing coronavirus restrictions, and mostly ended in questions and nervous shrugs of shoulders.

No one knows what to expect when, from Monday, the people come back to Bright, effectively ending the town's five-month shutdown, which began with the Black Summer bushfires in January.

Accommodation providers say the phones never ran so hot as last week in the hours after Premier Daniel Andrews announced that Victorians could soon venture to the regions for overnight stays.

Locals are generally grateful and optimistic, if not desperate, but some also fear tourists will bring more than dollars to a town so far untouched by COVID-19 cases.

From The Age

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