Cr Danita Potter - Tourism Portfolio Report - 18 April 2018

Update:

• South Burnett Unpacked 3 format is now a little different. There will be a tourism season launch 19 April Kingaroy Town Hall with operators invited to showcase their business to other operators, volunteers and general public with a number of presentations scheduled. The event runs from 10am to 3pm so I encourage the community to take the time to call in and chat to the operators that have made the effort to promote themselves and the network. These events are replacing the existing familiarisation tours by our visitor information centres as there is the added opportunity for volunteers to network with other visitor information centres.
• rEvents Academy second webinar was delivered 10 April with positive feedback received from participating event committees. The cross collaboration across these destination events is valuable and the 3 food events Goomeri Pumpkin Fest, Kingaroy BaconFest and Blackbutt Avocado Festival have taken the opportunity to attend Regional Flavours in July this year to promote their events and the region.  
• Expo 88 30th anniversary exhibit hosted at the Kingaroy Heritage Museum continues to be promoted with good publicity via ABC radio interviews and Icons of Queensland, Expo 88 program. Please RSVP, if you haven’t already, by contacting the museum.
• The roof restoration at the Kingaroy Heritage Museum is complete and the space is so much brighter and welcoming. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the volunteers who have been a fantastic help in the co-ordination of the installation and following clean up.
• I am excited to announce that our volunteers will be operating a Discover South Burnett stand at the South Queensland Caravan, Camping, Fishing and 4 x 4 Expo held in Nambour 20 – 22 April.
• The RACQ Road Ahead April/May publication with the “Sightseeing in the South Burnett” feature has been released.
• The Tourism section has made a pitch to ‘Brisbane Kids’ and ‘Holidays with Kids’ to promote the South Burnett Rail Trail via media familiarisation.  There is an RACQ food writer interested in visit to region mid-year and staff are continuing to work with Sequel PR to develop the food trail for future media familiarisations.