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LIFESTYLE • SHOPPING

Buy local this Christmas

Tropic rounds up some of our CaPTA Group
favourite local retailers to help
you shop local this festive season.
Instead of buying toys and more
Our team at Tropic noticed a bunch of ‘stuff’ this Christmas, grab a
Cairns retailers were sharing the same locals’ pass for unlimited fun for
meme in the lead up to Christmas. your family.
Featuring a chalkboard A-Frame on an
anonymous footpath, the sign reads: “Did MORE:
you know: If each of us spent $100 a year capta.com.au/local
more on local businesses instead of chain
stores, it would put an extra $3 million a
year into our economy. Not only that but Research shows that experiences are
would create thousands more jobs every better for us - and more treasured -
year.” than ‘products’ that end up gathering
Do the maths on that sign, and it’s clear dust in a cupboard somewhere. That’s
it was on display in a small town of just where locally-owned tourism company
30,000 people. With our population of CaPTA Group comes in this Christmas.
more than 160,000 people here in Cairns, Nothing provides better value
imagine the economic boost if we all combined with fun experiences like
spent an extra their Locals’ Annual 4-Park Pass. You
$100 per year on get unlimited access to four nature and
locally owned wildlife attractions for a whole year, hundreds of locals and donates
businesses? including Rainforestation, Australian a remarkable amount to local
Read on to Butterfly Sanctuary, Wildlife Habitat, charities.
discover some and Cairns Zoom and Wildlife Dome. From world heritage rainforest
of the ways you Yes, that’s right... unlimited access for experiences to 1500 magnificent
can support local 12 months with adult passes just $60 tropical butterlies, from native
businesses this and family passes an incredible $130. wildlife to the challenge of rope
festive season. As if that bargain wasn’t enough of an courses, the CaPTA Group’s Locals’
incentive, the company also employs Annual 4-Park Pass has it all.

BRIGHT IDEAS TO BUY LOCAL: TROPIC TIPS TO SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESS

Grab your festive cheer (we really mean
beer) from the drive-through bottlo at
the Bungalow Hotel, instead of Dan
Murphy’s. Apart from being locally
owned, the Bunga has the city’s most
amazing selection of craft beer.

Just a short drive south of Cairns Visit the Cairns CBD and wind your
you’ll find some cool pop-up shops way through the Oceana Walk Arcade
at Bryce’s Arcade in Gordonvale, plus for fabulous fashion, second-hand
fantastic caffeine hits and art at vinyl records, and more locally
Trolley Coffee. owned shops.

Get out and about during the summer
break, whether it’s for a drink at Three
Wolves, esters at The Chambers
or Hemingways Brewery, lunch at
Mama Cocos or Ochre, a cooking Give the gift of an annual
adventure along the Captain Cook subscription to Tropic Magazine.
Soak up the sights and smells at Highway to Oaks Kitchen and Garden We’re 100% locally owned and
Rusty’s Markets, where you’ll find a or a leisurely weekend drive to operated in Cairns, and your
sensory selection of local produce, Skybury’s and other adventures on the support helps a positive media
food treats and curios. Tablelands. voice thrive in our city.

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