HSA June 21

Years Serving the
SA Hotel Industry
From the General Manager
IAN HORNE – AHA|SA GENERAL MANAGER
Show Us Your Tick – AHA|SA Launches
QR Check In Campaign
As the President has highlighted in his column, the
AHA|SA has recently launched a campaign to increase
community support and cooperation around QR check
in at hospitality businesses.
Show Us Your Tick is an education campaign aimed at
hospitality businesses and their patrons, highlighting
the importance of checking in whenever visiting
hospitality venues.
Customer QR check in is the single most important
thing that people can do to assist South Australians to
enjoy a restriction free lifestyle. Why?
Checking in to a venue provides SA Health with the
assurance that contact tracers can quickly identify
close contacts in the event of an outbreak, keeping
South Australian’s safe, and businesses open.
The clear message to consumers is when visiting a
local hotel, don’t be offended if staff ask you to show
them your tick. It is our way of ensuring that we are
working together to protect South Australians’ health,
jobs, and businesses.
There is no doubt that South Australia has done
incredibly well in our response to the pandemic, and
the community has always done its best to comply
with government restrictions so let’s encourage our
customers to keep up the good work and make sure
all patrons check in when we are out supporting their
favourite venues, and let’s see the industry return to
restriction free trading as soon as possible.
“Customer QR check in is
the single most important
thing that people can do...”
This campaign is about satisfying SAPOL that
QR Scanning is strongly supported by hospitality
customers, and therefore providing them with the
comfort to continue to allow us to trade at 75% capacity
and move to 100% capacity in the foreseeable future.
The recent interstate experience in Victoria as a result
of their sudden 7-day lockdown has found that many
hotels and hospitality venues were sadly lacking in their
QR check in compliance, and therefore compromising
the efforts in that State to trace the close contacts of
those tested positive within the community. Of course,
the Victorian Government also shares in the blame for
failing to implement a single regulated QR scan system
until last week.
Courtesy of the SA Centre for Economic Studies, we
in SA know the consequences of lockdowns - the
November 2020 three-day event cost the SA Hotel
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