{"id":7411,"date":"2020-06-18T22:08:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T22:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=7411"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:19:05","slug":"australia-borders-likely-to-be-closed-until-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australia-borders-likely-to-be-closed-until-2021","title":{"rendered":"Australia: borders likely to be closed until 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tourism minister Simon Birmingham said there may be exemptions in the case of New Zealand and business and student travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- The Australian Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham has said borders in the country will probably remain closed with some exceptions until 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told the National Press Club: &#8220;I do sadly think that in terms of open tourist-related travel in or out of Australia, that remains quite some distance off.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said he was is in favor of \u201cputting health first\u201d ahead of travel and business and believed it would be a patriotic gesture for Australians to invest in their own economy and travel locally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said there will be some exceptions. There are aleady advanced talks between authorities in Australia and New Zealand to allow only between the two nations, which have had <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/new-zealand-sports-stadiums\">similar success in eliminating the novel coronavirus<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Birmingham said that possible exemptions were also being evaluated for business travellers and foreign students with long-term purposes or investments investments in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism minister Simon Birmingham said there may be exemptions in the case of New Zealand and business and student travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Australia's Tourism Minister, Simon Birmingham, has indicated that the country's borders will likely remain closed to general tourist travel until 2021, prioritizing public health. Exceptions are being evaluated for travel between Australia and New Zealand, as well as for business travelers and foreign students with long-term investments. The government is encouraging domestic tourism to bolster the local economy.","focusai_entities":"Simon Birmingham, National Press Club","focusai_location":"Australia, New Zealand","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.7), regulator (0.7), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on iGaming M&A","query":"How will Australia's extended border closures affect the due diligence processes and valuation metrics for potential iGaming M&A targets or strategic investments in the APAC region?"},{"label":"Land-based Casino Revenue","query":"What are the projected revenue implications for Australian land-based casino operators, particularly those reliant on international high-roller segments, given the prolonged border restrictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157,158],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-7411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","category-slider-home","tag-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7419,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions\/7419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}