What do we do?

The services and functions that we provide are designed to help members enhance their tourism businesses. These include:

• Workshops to help build knowledge and understanding of compliance and legislative and licence requirements affecting small businesses;

• Specific business advice for product development and packaging;

• Facilitate business networks, and

• Timely information and communication.

Our workshops cover topics such as:

• Sustaining your Tourism Business;

• Starting Up in Tourism;

• Risk Management;

• Adventure Tourism;

We offer strategic and development assistance to member tourist associations and tourism umbrella groups, including:

• Developing a strategic direction for tourism on a regional basis;

• Developing effective local and regional tourism associations that have pragmatic structures and that work to an agreed plan;

• Managing the relationships between local/regional tourism associations, local councils and the broader community;

• Accessing workshop facilitators who understand the regional tourism system and can motivate and deliver outcomes.

On a broader level, we represent our members’ concerns directly to state and local government on a range of issues from:

• Tourism policy;

• Economic development;

• Insurance and professional idemnity;

• Regional infrastructure and services;

• Licensing reforms across government agencies such as

• Parks Victoria, DSE, and Marine Safety Victoria and WorkSafe Victoria; and

• Codes of conduct.

Together, we are building a stronger tourism industry.

What are some of the projects we have done?

We have been engaged by the Victorian Government and other authorities to deliver a number of different projects and programs across the State.  Click here to see our current and past projects