1 May 2025
INDUSTY OPPORTUNITIES
NOMINATE NOW: QUEENSLAND TOURISM AWARDS
Nominations for the Queensland Tourism Awards are open!
With over 30 award categories, the state's highest tourism accolade recognises individuals and businesses dedicated to visitor excellence.
Nominating your tourism product is a quick 10-minute process and ensures that your business is in the running to complete an award submission, due later in the year.
Nominate your business before Friday, 9 May 2025.
BE PART OF THAT QUEENSLAND HOLIDAY FEELING!
Tourism and Events Queensland (TEQ) have launched a bold new brand platform - That Queensland Holiday Feeling, positioning Queensland as the holiday destination.
Tourism operators are invited to be involved by creating a reel using free CapCut templates and posting it across your own social media channels. Use your own footage to showcase your business, with the headline That Queensland Holiday Feeling.
- You’ll need to use the free CapCut template and show your holiday feeling
- Tag @queensland and use the hashtags #QueenslandHolidayFeeling and #experiencegoldcoast
- Post one or more reels on Instagram by COB Saturday, May 17.
The best content may be featured on TEQ’s social channels over the coming months!
THE TOURISM BUSINESS DIGITAL ADAPTION PROGRAM IS BACK!
The Tourism Business Digital Adaption Program is back for 2025, offering eligible tourism operators up to $2,500 in funding for digital upgrades.
Improve the reach and impact of your small or medium-size business with access to more than 70 approved digital program providers. Solutions on offer include:
- social media content creation and scheduling
- back-end systems
- reservation and booking systems
- and much more!
Click below to see the approved digital providers supporting the program and claim your $2,500 digital upgrade today.
MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS
WIN A 12-MONTH LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIP FOR A FIRST-TIME MANAGER
Whether you're a first-time manager ready to grow or a leader nominating someone in your team, this is your chance to gain access to a transformational leadership experience.
Kinetik Global is offering a 12-month scholarship to the premium Lead Strong Foundational Program, designed to support a first-time managers with the tools, confidence and clarity they need to lead effectively.
Who can enter?
- first-time managers entering on their own behalf
- frontline leaders who may have been leading a long time but are feeling overwhelmed and out of their depth
- senior leaders, HR, Learning and Development or team leads nominating a manager who fits the above criteria.
You can apply for yourself or nominate someone else. If nominating someone, we’ll contact you if your application is successful and request the nominee's contact details.
Entries close 5pm Tuesday, 6 May and winner or nominee will be contacted Wednesday, 7 May.
EMERGENCY SERVICES SAFARI
The City of Gold Coast invites you, your family, and friends to the Emergency Services Safari. Meet the heroes who helped during Tropical Cyclone Alfred and learn how our city is recovering. Immerse the family in a FREE, action-packed day including:
- demonstrations and workshops
- engage with experts on emergency response and recovery strategies
- important tips for personal preparedness and planning
- interactive children’s activities
- plenty of giveaways
- an assortment of delicious food trucks.
Where: Pacific Pines Central Park
When: 9am - 2pm, 10 May 2025
Produced with assistance from the Commonwealth State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements.
Supported by Triple M.
QUICK SNIPPETS
- Last chance to have your say on future transport options for the Southern Gold Coast. The Queensland Government is delivering on its commitment to assess the public transport connectivity options for the southern Gold Coast by conducting a review with community input, so that all routes and all modes can be considered. Have your say today.
VIEW THE 17 APRIL 2025 VISITOR ECONOMY UPDATE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
Experience Gold Coast acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we are situated, the Kombumerri families of the Yugambeh Language Region.
We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, and recognise their continuing connections to the lands, waters and their extended communities throughout Southeast Queensland.