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New Indigenous training centre to open in Yulara

Posted 24 May 2011 by Celeste Liddle (Indigenous)

Indigenous group signs $300m rock resort deal

By Tom Nightingale

Posted 3 hours 25 minutes ago

The $300 million sale of Yulara resort near Uluru in the Northern Territory has been finalised after a deal was signed yesterday.

The taxpayer-funded Indigenous Land Corporation has now taken over the Yulara complex, 25 kilometres from the rock.

The corporation aims to have Aboriginal people make up more than half its staff within seven years.

More than 300,000 people stay at the Yulara resort each year.

The corporation finalised the purchase from real estate group GPT after details of the deal were initially flagged last October.

It will establish a National Indigenous Tourism Training Academy at the site and plans to train 200 people a year from 2013 in tourism and hospitality.

It will also start a high school for teenagers from surrounding communities.

The corporation says it is aiming for more than 50 per cent Aboriginal employment at the resort by 2018.

It says the Yulara purchase could be the biggest tourism opportunity for Indigenous people in Australia's history.

 

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