The Labor Party is pressuring the government for details on where $13.5 million promised for the tourism industry will be spent.
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Labor leader Rebecca White also wants to know how much money remains unspent from the Make Yourself at Home travel voucher program.
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She said the tourism and hospitality sectors wanted to know which projects would receive the federal government funding promised to Tasmania in September last year.
"At a time when many operators and workers in the tourism and hospitality sector are beginning to feel nervous about the end to JobKeeper the last thing they want is more uncertainty about when promised government funding will flow," Ms White said.
"The unspent money from the tourism vouchers must be used to help tourism and hospitality operators and workers navigate the next few critical months.
"There is no doubt that once JobKeeper ends in March the effect on workers and operators will have a negative impact.
"As school holidays come to an end the amazing support Tasmanians have been able to offer our tourism and hospitality venues will decrease."
A government spokesman said an estimated $27.5 million in additional spend was estimated to have been generated by the travel voucher holders state wide, with people spending on average, more than $3 to every voucher dollar.
"And the result was irrefutable, National Visitor Survey data for the month of October last year shows the number of overnight intrastate trips was 188,100 - up 19 per cent for the same month the previous year and the second highest intrastate growth in the nation," he said.
"As far as the Australian Government's support for the sector goes, conversations are ongoing and progressing well with industry engaged, including the TICT and the four regional tourism organisations who have helped to identify the priority projects for consideration.
"We simply won't be throwing money at ill-considered initiatives as is Labor's modus operandi. We are focussed on strategic support in the right places at the right place in consultation with the industry."