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NEWS and INFORMATION



LGSA Tourism Conference- Mayors and Elected Members urged to register
Dates March 10-12 2010.
LocationCowra Civic Centre, Cowra Shire Council.
Don't miss NSW's only Local Government focused tourism conference! The sixth annual LGSA Tourism Conference will be exploring The Business of Tourism.

This conference creates a framework to help mayors, councillors, tourism staff and industry representatives strengthen their tourism strategy.

Program Sessions
Funding - the big picture in funding tourism, TQUAL
Tourism NSW session on funding including partnership, regional event and incentive funding
Council Case Study Breakout Sessions: Barrington Tops Tourism Overview, Clarence River Tourism, Millthorpe Business Committee Business model, Kurri Kurri Nostalgia Festival
Marketing Breakout Sessions: Marketing Models for VICs, Bankstown Bites Case Study, Destination Visitor Survey
Sustainable Pathways Program
Q Station Case Study
Firing Up Cultural Tourism
2009 Update on Camping Issues
Site inspection to the Cowra POW Campsite and Replica Guard Tower, VIC Centre Hologram and War Cemetery
Workshop breakout sessions based on the Cowra POW site visit: Scenario 1 - Marketing strategy, collaboration, Scenario 2 - Funding and stakeholder partnerships, Scenario 3 - Community involvement and infrastructure

Optional Sessions Tourism Managers Exchange, 9.30 to 2pm Wednesday 10 March - free - please book during registration.
The Business of Events, 2.30pm to 5.30pm Wednesday 10 March - $77 - please book during registration.

Optional Activities
Darby Falls Observatory, 8pm to 11pm Wednesday 10 March (after the Welcome Reception) - $15.50
Breakfast, Yoga and Swimming, 7.30am to 8.30am Friday 12 March - $15.50
Social Events
Welcome Reception, 6pm to 8pm Wednesday 10 March - The Mill Cellar Door - included in full registration
Conference Dinner, 7.30pm to 10.30pm Thursday 11 March - Cowra Japanese Garden - included in full registration

The 2010 NSW Tourism Conference is partnered by Tourism New South Wales and supported by the Tourism Industry Council. Sponsorship opportunities are still available at this time, please enquire with the LGSA. www.TourismConference.lgsa.org.au



18/1/2010
Congratulations to Fellow AITO member Gretchen Armitage on her new position as Manager Economic Development, Bathurst Regional Council.
In Gretchen ‘s own words – “Left Cabonne after 5 years to go to Bathurst Regional Council as Manager Economic Development. Having worked at Brewarrina, Wellington, Cabonne and Bathurst we are slowly working our way to the Coast! “
Gretchen is nothing if not economical with words. It should make a welcome change for the Councillors at Bathurst when reading her reports
Hooroo
Tom

20-12-09
Welcome to new AITO member Lea Turner. Lea is the National Sales and Marketing Manager for Cartoscope Pty Ltd, those wonderful people in Hornsby who produce the Cartoscope Maps. Where would we be in the Tourism Industry if we did not have maps to give to our visitors.

Congratulations to fellow AITO member Fiona Hatcher. Fiona is the Visitors Centre Manager at Nowra but will be taking up her new position as Executive Officer with Regional Development Australia (RDA) South Coast NSW very early in the New Year. What a great opportunity and career advancement. And given the importance of Tourism to the South Coast’s economy then I am sure we will not be losing Fiona’s skills to the industry.

And congratulations to fellow AITO member Jodie McKenna of Tamworth. After 18 years with Tamworth Regional Council and working on the Tamworth Country Music Festival, Jodie has had a career change in favour of getting a life. She will have her first summer holidays in 20 years and there might even be a trip to Ireland to see relatives. However I’m not sure how long this will last as she has already received job offers from the Country Music industry.

11/12/09
Please take 5 mins to complete this quick survey in relation to the 2010 AITO Professional Development Conference”
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KKM29QL
Thanks
Lori
Lori Modde
Managing Director
Lorck Management Pty Ltd



14/8/09

Congratulations to Carolyn Haigh



Congratulations to fellow AITO member Carolyn Haigh who took out the Major Award at the NSW South Coast Tourism Awards on Wednesday night the 12th August 2009.
Carolyn was the recipient of the Chairman's Award which is the most prestigious Tourism Award on the South Coast. It is only awarded at the Chairman's discretion and this is only the second time in the 14 year history of the South Coast Tourism Awards that it has been awarded.
Carolyn works on the administrative side of the South Coast Tourism Organisation in addition to her "day job" as the Secretary of the Tourism Section at Shoalhaven City Council.
Most of the work she does for the South Coast she does in her own time. She is the "working engine" that keeps the whole organisation ticking over. And she has been doing that for 14 years.
And it is a huge job with the South Coast Regional Tourism Organisation being the peak body looking after Tourism on the South Coast of NSW - an industry that brings in over $2 billion per annum to the Region's economy.
Good on you Carolyn - just recognition for an untiring job well done.

Tom Phillips
President AITO





Qualifications


Are you or somebody you know looking to further your qualifications in Tourism

NMIT (Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE) is one of Australia’s leading colleges in Tourism education and the one that the AITO has an arrangement with to provide formal qualifications in Tourism.

NMIT has vacancies in its courses for 2008 in
Certificate IV – natural and Cultural Tourism (tour Guiding)
Dual Diplomas Tourism (Operations Management and Marketing and Product Development)
Dual Diplomas Tourism (Operations Management and Event Management)
Certificate IV Tourism (Operations)
Certificate III Tourism (Visitor Information Services)
Certificate III Meetings and Events

NMIT offers students
Mentoring program for 1st and 2nd year students
Industry placement
Department membership in the Young Tourism network
Exciting Excursions, field trips and seminars
Participation in industry events and functions.

Importantly for AITO members who are not in Melbourne, NMIT also specialises in distance education and also in the recognition of prior learning (RPL).

For more information contact NMIT on 03 9269 1466, tourism-info@nmit.vic.edu.au


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