Australian travel agents are planning a series of protests next month over continuing restrictions imposed on the tourism industry, which has been devastated over the course of the pandemic. Belle Goldie, owner of iTravel Penrith in the west of Sydney, told 2GB radio on Dec. 24 that since the announcement of the rallies, she has received an “outpouring of support from the industry,” with some agents calling her “in tears.” “We were told to wait until the vaccines arrived, or told to wait till we reached herd immunity which moved from 70 to 80 to 90 percent,” she said. “Now we’re here we still don’t have a restart plan, and there’s really no reasonable justification.” Goldie said the government has imposed “a spider web of restrictions” which discouraged Australians from travelling. “Agents across Australia and around the world are left scratching their heads on a daily basis on what today is …