CEO & Board Updates
The CEO and Board provide regular updates to members and stakeholders on TTNQ’s activities and the state of the industry. These are included in TTNQ’s member newsletters.
December 2025 CEO Update
The year 2025 is ending on a high with news of record international spend and visitation making Tropical North Queensland the best performing region in the State for both total and holiday visitors.
November 2025 CEO Update
The Tropical North Queensland tourism industry’s commitment to excellence was recognised on Friday night with 23 Queensland Tourism Awards including nine gold awards for our destination’s innovation, resilience and customer service.
October 2025 CEO Update
As we celebrate Indigenous Business Month it is exciting to see international visitors returning to Tropical North Queensland’s Indigenous experiences. Members of the TNQ Indigenous Experiences Cluster Group are reporting great numbers.
September 2025 CEO Update
More than 1320 additional jobs have been created in Tropical North Queensland after a record 110 Tourism Tropical North Queensland-led international campaigns in 2024-25 delivered an extra 213,700 visitors through the support of the Australian Government funded international recovery program which ended in June 2025.
August 2025 CEO Update
In 1975 Australia was on the cusp of its tourism revolution and at the forefront was the Far North Queensland Promotion Bureau, preceding the State tourism organisation and arguably the first regional tourism organisation in the country.
July 2025 CEO Update
Tourism Tropical North Queensland has wrapped up the end of financial year with some outstanding results from the more than 110 international campaigns we have delivered this year alone through the International Tourism Recovery Fund delivered through Austrade.
June 2025 CEO Update
TTNQ’s members were given an invaluable update on where the tourism industry is heading at the 2025 My Queensland TNQ Tourism Conference held at the Pullman Reef Hotel Casino yesterday with more than 120 delegates attending.
May 2025 CEO Update
Tourism Tropical North Queensland’s launch of the Lifetime of Greatness Project on World Earth Day has generated global publicity for the Great Barrier Reef with a media reach of more than 60 million so far and we want to make sure our members benefit from this success story.
April 2025 CEO Update
Promoting the Great Barrier Reef as an international icon that everyone should visit in their lifetime is critical to its future protection and the prosperity of the many regional communities that this World Heritage area supports.
March 2025 CEO Update
Tourism Tropical North Queensland’s members are front and centre of our engagement with tourism trade partners around the world this month through webinars and face-to-face appointments as we approach the end of our Federally funded campaign activity.
February 2025 CEO Update
Global expectations are rising for the tourism industry to move beyond providing experiences to ensuring tourism is sustainable and contributing to the future of our natural environments and our communities.
January 2025 CEO Update
Happy New Year – just a few weeks in and 2025 is already feeling more promising than the devastation that Tropical North Queensland was facing last year.
December 2024 CEO Update
As this tumultuous year comes to an end, it is time to reflect on the great progress we have made as a collective towards our ambitious goal of reaching $5 billion of visitor spend.
November 2024 CEO Update
Tourism Tropical North Queensland welcomes the new Minister for the Environment and Tourism, and Minister for Science and Innovation Andrew Powell to the Queensland Cabinet.
October 2024 CEO Update
The tourism industry of Tropical North Queensland welcomes the ALP commitment and seeks bipartisan support for a $10 million investment over four years to drive our region’s recovery and the future growth of tourism in Queensland.
September 2024 CEO Update
With little more than five weeks until we head to the State Government polls, Tourism Tropical North Queensland is asking all candidates to support the recovery of Tropical North Queensland to ensure Queensland is a powerhouse for Australian tourism growth over the next four years.
August 2024 CEO Update
The Business Events sector is setting multiple records for Tropical North Queensland with record visitation and record leads playing an ongoing key role in the region’s recovery.
July 2024 CEO Update
Early results from TTNQ’s global campaigns are showing an incredible 37:1 return on investment with $82 million in overnight visitor expenditure already reaped from 51 international campaigns and another 44 campaigns yet to be reported on.
May 2024 CEO Update
Team Tropical North Queensland held more than 7000 appointments to promote the destination in Melbourne last week at the Australian Tourism Exchange 2024. Our destination was represented at 48 booths with 86 delegates attending the four days of trade appointments and events, in addition to meetings with aviation partners and media.
May 2024 CEO Update
Tropical North Queensland’s events calendar is in full swing with 100 community heroes from across the country attending the world-first Savannah Sounds on the Reef featuring Sheppard and Lee Kernaghan at the Reef Magic pontoon on Saturday.
April 2024 CEO Update
The new Singapore Airlines A350 service touched down in Cairns this week bringing with it the opportunity to progress Tropical North Queensland’s international recovery.
March 2024 CEO Update
TTNQ has launched a Sustainability Leaders Group as part of our vision for Tropical North Queensland to be the leader in ecotourism in Australia and our mission for every visitor to leave our destination as a custodian of the region’s stories.
February 2024 CEO Update
With Cape Tribulation still inaccessible, forward bookings in Port Douglas well down and Cairns still behind previous years, it is essential that everything gets thrown at helping Tropical North Queensland tourism operators who face a very tough end of summer season.
January 2024 CEO Update
Tourism Tropical North Queensland has been advocating for industry support since 10 December when Tropical Cyclone Jasper was looming and to date we have done more than 40 media appearances to let decision-makers and visitors know where help is needed.