THE Mt Buller Chamber of Commerce held its annual pre-season get together and meeting recently with more than 65 attending at The ABOM.
Chamber president Sox Phillipasidis said operators on the mountain are staying positive and looking forward to this season which hopefully will be able to run at full extent.
“The good news we thought was with some government grants with regards to the sewerage treatment plant and the power upgrades – the future was looking great," he said.
“Of course now the uncertainty is with this latest lockdown.
“It is only a seven day lockdown and hopefully without too many ramifications afterwards.
“Of course we don’t know what restrictions will be in place – hopefully we will still be back on track.
“We are looking forward to the Queen’s Birthday weekend for the opening of the season."
With the latest COVID restrictions and lockdown it was much harder for business and lodges to gear up for the opening weekend, but Mr Phillipasidis said everyone was remaining positive and are hoping all venues can open without capacity restrictions.
“It is the uncertainty given last year the season got cut short and there is a lot of uncertainty still,” he said.
“It’s been difficult getting staff anyway, particularly in hospitality, and now with this (lockdown) on top it just exacerbates the problem.
“But just being able to open hopefully without capacity restrictions; because that’s the big uncertainty now, any restrictions and being overly cautious; we don’t think there should be any issues, but fingers crossed.
“We are still positive.
“We believe the future is bright."
