SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT | Rebecca White

Workshop: How your Visitor Servicing team can add more value to your visitors and communities

Rebecca has lived and breathed tourism for over two decades, and has mentored and trained many Australian local government and regional tourism organisations in best practice visitor serving through Tourism eSchool’s…

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SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT | Simon O’Callaghan

Topic: Digital Visitor Information Kiosks….a pilot for the future

Simon O’Callaghan is the CEO of Yarra Ranges Tourism, leading tourism in the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges and has achieved a range of successful advocacy outcomes to support new projects in the region. In addition to the delivery of high…

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SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT | Melissa Ritchie

Topic: Marketing – Tapping into your own Backyard Market

Melissa Ritchie is a marketing strategist, art director and account manager who leads WISDOM’s Art Department. With more than 20 years experience in the industry, she has seen and pivoted within a fast changing landscape, loving the digital age we find…

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SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT | Hannah Statham

Topic: Marketing’s old is new again

Hannah might only just clear five foot, but she could easily enter herself into a heavy weight content marketing competition. Her signature move? Planting a target on your audience’s back and hitting them with bullseye accuracy. She’s first and foremost a content marketer,…

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TEQ launched a global Working Holiday Maker (WHM) campaign to build aspiration for Queensland as a working holiday destination. The campaign will target WHM in priority global markets and intercept WHM who are already in Australia
to encourage them to travel to Queensland. Find out how to get involved here.
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Destination NSW has partnered with digital consultancy Tourism Tribe to offer a free Digital Skills Accelerator for Tourism program to help businesses in the NSW visitor economy transform their online marketing. The program provides customised digital health checks to ensure businesses optimise their websites, improve their online listings…

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Over four million Australians are planning a trip away this Easter with $7.1 billion to be spent on holidays, while around $1.5 billion will be splurged on food and chocolate, in a major boon for tourism operators and retail businesses.

Research released today by the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) in conjunction with Roy Morgan has… Read more

Today Tourism Australia launched a new international business events brand campaign, There’s Nothing Like Australia, and the latest iteration of the domestic business events marketing campaign, Event Here This Year. Both campaigns form part of a broader recovery strategy that will support Australia’s business events industry through… Read more

With funding support from the LG Research and Development Scheme, a best practice guide for grant management has been produced for local government.

The guide is intented to support South Australian councils to build capacity and increase sustainability through integrating best practice in the grant making and grant attraction.

Good grant…

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