{"id":10380,"date":"2009-04-21T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/business-as-usual-on-lord-howe-island-2\/"},"modified":"2009-04-21T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T09:58:00","slug":"business-as-usual-on-lord-howe-island-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/04\/business-as-usual-on-lord-howe-island-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSINESS AS USUAL ON LORD HOWE ISLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lordhoweisland.info\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lordhoweisland.info\/images\/lhi_aerial.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>The Lord Howe Island Tourism Association and tourism operators report that it\u2019s back to business as usual on the island, following the storm earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>The island\u2019s airport will re-open tomorrow, and the damage to the airstrip has been repaired. Four QantasLink flights from Sydney and two from Brisbane are scheduled for Wednesday, April 22, which signal a return to normal for the island\u2019s flights and tourism operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe damage to the island reported in the media has been somewhat exaggerated,\u201d  said Pixie Rourke, Chair of the Lord Howe Island Tourism Association and proprietor of Pinetrees, the oldest and largest guesthouse on the island.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe storm caused some damage to infrastructure, including to the airstrip, and there were disruptions to the power supply. But the airstrip has been repaired, the power\u2019s on \u2013 and the beer is still cold!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As is the tradition on the island in the case of flight cancellations, guests have been treated to a taste of island hospitality during their extended stay.<\/p>\n<p>World Heritage-listed Lord Howe is located 700km north-east of Sydney and has a limit of 400 tourists at any time.<\/p>\n<p>Further information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lordhoweisland.info\/\">www.lordhoweisland.info<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord Howe Island Tourism Association and tourism operators report that it\u2019s back to business as usual on the island, following the storm earlier in the week. The island\u2019s airport will re-open tomorrow, and the damage to the airstrip has been repaired. Four QantasLink flights from Sydney and two from Brisbane are scheduled for Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}