NSW: Sydneysiders will avoid Harbour for New Years : survey

AAP General News (Australia)
08-31-1999
NSW: Sydneysiders will avoid Harbour for New Years : survey
EDS: Embargoed until 0500 August 31, RTV 1999.



Fifty nine per cent of Sydneysiders will not spend the millennium New Years' on the Harbour
and 40 per cent intend to leave the city during the 2000 Olympics.

A Chamber of Commerce survey, conducted in Sydney last Friday, also shows half of those
questioned intend to stay in Sydney during the 2000 Games.

Chamber spokeswoman KATIE LAHEY says the public's reluctance to bring in the 21st century
in Sydney is likely due to uncertainty over planned activities and concern about large crowds.

Ms LAHEY says the sample of 276 people reveals 31 per cent of residents would be at or near
Sydney Harbour for the New Year.

But 59 per cent say they will stay away and 10 per cent are undecided.

Meanwhile 40 per cent of people surveyed say they will leave Sydney during the Olympics, 54
per cent say they will stay and six per cent are undecided.

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