An Age of Magic

Is this the end for a once great Australian destination?

I was watching a current affairs program recently where a ‘fawlty towers’ type situation was reported on. The subject was a beautiful resort nestled in the Blue Mountains in NSW, Australia.

I remembered it well; Fairmount Resort was THE place to stay at when visiting the Blue Mountains. Celebrities from overseas always made for the beautiful spa overlookin the Jamieson Valley – it cost a packet to sta there even for a weekend. But now hard times have fallen on the Fairmount since it was taken over by an asian company.

They have sacked most of the local Australian staff and employed Korean’s who cannot speak a word of english and who have no idea how to clean a room, or change a bed, clean the beautiful Delta fauctes or sweep a floor. This is one reason why Australians are big on ‘Australian owned’.

The resort is now a filthy establishment with broken down facilities and a long line of very unhappy customers. Fortunately local tourism concerns are doing something about this; the resort has been removed from all tourism listings until the new owners get their act together. I hope it works – it is bad enough when foreigners take over something inherently Australian but when they make a mess of something that was once wonderful it is almost unforgiveable.

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