CEO & Board Updates

As the year draws to a close we take time to reflect on our achievements and realise that so many of them have resulted from strong partnerships.

The value of tourism in Tropical North Queensland is firmly cemented in the minds of the nation’s most influential politicians after intensive lobbying as part of the Cairns Convoy to Canberra last week.

Feedback from China indicates that the number of independent visitors will continue to grow from this source market bringing a new, savvy traveller who wants to do more than tick off the reef, rainforest and Indigenous culture with half day trips.

Australia’s leading travel writers will explore Tropical North Queensland when Cairns hosts the Australian Society of Travel Writers Convention on 18-20 October 2019.

The TTNQ Board met recently in Kuranda, one of the three meetings a year held outside Cairns. We also caught up with tourism industry representatives including members of Tropical Tablelands Tourism at a networking event in the evening.

The economic impact of business events confirmed by the Business Events Cairns & Great Barrier Reef team in the 2017-18 financial year has more than doubled to $111 million.

Indigenous tourism businesses in Tropical North Queensland have the opportunity to develop new infrastructure with $1.1 million in matched funding from the State Government.

This week the Tropical North Queensland tourism industry came together to hear how TTNQ is progressing on our new strategic direction to deliver $3.5 billion in expenditure by 2020.