Renewal SA wants to chop down 11 street trees along North Terrace as part of the Lot Fourteen development. Photo: Tony Lewis / InDaily

Reader contributions

Your views: on "Old Mate", bike lanes and North Tce trees

Today, readers comment on the controversial “Old Mate” tourism ad, the fate of 100-year-old trees on North Terrace, and the futility of painted bike lanes.

Local

Older people no fans of SA Tourism ad

A widely-derided new SA Tourism ad plays to outdated stereotypes about older people that will more likely put them off coming here than convince them to visit, the Council on the Ageing says.

Notes on Adelaide

SA makes old man cry | Marshall’s land tax apology

A rare mea culpa from the Premier heralds the return of Notes on Adelaide, which also ponders SA Tourism’s quite odd new ad in which an Adelaide Oval roof climb brings a septuagenarian named ‘Old Mate’ to tears.

Local

Marshall promises “ambitious” tourism splurge following hotel warning

Premier Steven Marshall says he is willing to match a “huge ambition” from tourism groups to grow South Australia’s visitor economy, following industry criticism that Adelaide’s luxury hotel market is at risk of oversupply.

Business

Hoteliers warn of “unsustainable” city room boom

Adelaide’s rapidly expanding hotel market could lead to a “glut” of empty rooms unless the State Government boosts its tourism spending, hotel groups have warned.