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The Tourism Sector Board
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Current Members
Geoff Rickard
Chair
Peter Homan
Tourism Board Gov. Rep.
Boyd Williams
Dean Walsh
Jane E Fraser
Laurie Stevens
Rick Cooper
Stephen Ferrigno
Lee-Ann Hay
Steve McPharlin
Wade Nicklin
View tourism board member profiles>About the Tourism Sector Board
The Tourism Sector Board is also known as the Board of Tourism Noosa. Tourism Noosa is the region’s award winning destination and marketing organisation for sustainable tourism within our Biosphere Reserve. Tourism plays a critical role in our local economy and the Board is working collaboratively to achieve interdependent economic, social and environmental sustainability outcomes.
Noosa Biosphere Reserve natural assets include our beaches, our reserves, our parks, our hinterland, our biodiversity and many others too numerous to list. These natural assets are the foundations of a multimillion dollar vibrant and successful tourism sector. The tourism operators and the local community have embraced our visitors and worked in partnership to enable a sustainable and ongoing industry.
Sustainable Industry
The tourism industry is not only the tour operators, it covers many of our local businesses including the resort and accommodation sectors, local retail, local restaurant and the bed and breakfast down the road in the hinterland. In order to meet the visitor needs, and at the same time meet the needs of the local community, the tourism sector must embrace best practice research, planning, training and development. Healthy sustainable tourism supports infrastructure development and improvement that is also used by the community. Jobs and careers are underpinned by a sustainable tourism sector.
Through learning and development, businesses can flourish whilst at the same time keep to the values and principles of environmental sustainability.
Sustainable Marketing
An economically sustainable tourism industry is essential for the region’s ongoing viability. Effective marketing of the biosphere reserve as part of the attraction of Noosa will yield sufficient visitor numbers to sustain our local economy through planned growth.
Tourism Noosa is committed to delivering a proactive, responsive and cost effective marketing plan that targets both international and domestic visitors. The visitors that respond to these campaigns are most likely to be those that value our natural assets, therefore interested in helping to maintain them.
Learn about sustainable-tourism (not just eco or nature-based tourism) as one of the new and emerging opportunities in the region.
Sustainable Community
With a membership of just under 500 local businesses and with board members from the local community, Tourism Noosa is guided by what is best for the local community.
Tourism outcomes are the benefit of all, this includes local employment opportunities as well as awareness raising activities that help educate our visitors on the importance of environmental conservation and protection.
Looking forward
Sustainable tourism is the way of the future, and Tourism Noosa is one of the first organisations of its kind to have a comprehensive sustainable tourism plan.
Please feel very welcome to contact us.
Meeting schedules
The Sector Boards meet every 6 weeks, usually at the Sunshine Coast Council chambers in Tewantin. If you wish to attend, please let us know and you will be warmly welcomed. Please check our events calendar for upcoming meetings.
No announcements found.Meeting Minutes (latest)
Meeting minutes are recorded and subsequently approved at the next sector board meeting. They are hence being uploaded to the website with a 6 weekly delay. For older meeting minutes see the archive.
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