The New South Wales government will invest more than $530 million (US$397 million) into “turbocharging” the recovery of the events and tourism sector. “This is all about turbocharging our visitor economy,” Tourism Minister Stuart Ayres told reporters. “There’s probably no sector across NSW that’s been more damaged by the sustained impact of the coronavirus pandemic than our tourism industry.” Ayres said the government was making a strong statement to global airlines that the state wanted planes back in Sydney. Sydney International Airport has been operating at 1 percent of its traditional because Sydney and Australia had been closed off from the world for 19 months, causing airlines to direct flights away from the country. The state government will allocate $60 million into an Aviation Attraction Fund to incentivise commercial airlines to resume flight routes to Sydney. “We should not be arrogant enough to think that just because we’ve reopened the …