As part of our online web monitoring for mentions of Canberra the robots often throw up entries from travel blogs. And they often look like this:
“The final thought on Canberra is very much the same as Brisbane. It is perceived by travellers as a crap place to visit but a nice place to live and that is it. I preferred Brisbane personally but we were also there for longer. Canberra from the point of a resident is a great place to be but for the tourist, save time, money and sanity and miss it unless you know people there in which case it is a must. Good fun to hang out more than look around the place.
And that’s it! Our mountains are not so high, our rivers are trickles between ponds, the average tourist expects to be able to walk between major locations in even the biggest city and that’s just not on here. The coast is not that close, and neither is the snow. Leaves falling of trees in Autumn is a novelty to Australians and no-one else who can’t see it better somewhere else that’s more interesting.
Canberra is a great place to live (if the rain keeps up), it is of some interest to other Australians. But spending money luring foreign visitors here is just going to upset them and give us negative word or mouth.
So, for all time, let their be an end to wasting public money promoting Canberra as an international tourist destination!
The same author also had these words for the YHA:
“This place is an absolute drag in near enough every way. The hostel is clean, but the staff are pretty dull, the facilities are expensive and pretty poor and the customers are either ridiculously boring, or have better conversations eith themselves than anyone else. To top it all off you have to pay for luggage storage, not great for an expensive place.”
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