The company, which offers a range of travel services to destinations including Uluru, Kings Canyon and the MacDonnell Ranges, will relocate its assets to Darwin.
The move comes as central Australia's tourism industry stares down the barrel of a languishing tourism season, resulting from soaring airfares and negative media attention around the crime crisis engulfing Alice Springs.during the 2023 peak tourism season.
"We are still very fragile post-COVID, and it's just little things that will make a huge impact, and unfortunately ATG's had to make this difficult decision," he said.
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