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Resource Management Act changes would support New Zealand tourism
Tourism Industry Aotearoa (TIA) believes that changes to the New Zealand's Resource Management Act must balance care for the environment with the pressing need for new...
May 25, 2016
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Environment
China grapples with rise in childhood obesity
Rising affluence in China has seen a dramatic rise in obesity among children and adolescents with around one in six boys and one in 11 girls found as being obese in a new study....
May 21, 2016
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Retail
Planned new Townsville Stadium not financially viable
With calls for the next Federal Government to back the development of a new Townsville Stadium having emerged as a key election issue in the marginal constituency, a benefit...
May 21, 2016
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AACB calls for policies to boost business events
Policies which attract more conventions and exhibitions to Australia should be a priority for all political parties to reverse a decline in Australia’s business events industry,...
May 19, 2016
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Inaugural Chief Executive appointed to lead Visit Victoria
Visit Victoria, Victoria’s new tourism and events agency is to be led by inaugural Chief Executive Peter Bingeman. Bingeman, who was raised in metropolitan and regional Victoria...
May 18, 2016
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Government defers introduction of backpacker tax
As a result of growing industry and political opposition, the Federal Government has announced that it will delay the introduction of its ‘backpacker tax’ until January next...
May 17, 2016
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Growth of small tourism businesses vital to Queensland economy
Queensland’s peak industry body for tourism, the Queensland Tourism Industry Council (QTIC), has acknowledged the economic value of the state’s small businesses and their...
May 16, 2016
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Singapore Government to increase investment in tourism marketing
Bouyed by a revival of overseas visitor numbers in the first few months of 2016, the Singapore Government has announced that the tourism sector will get another S$700 million...
May 14, 2016
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HBF Arena and Lathlain Park to benefit from Western Australia budget
Sport has benefitted from new funding commitments in the Western Australian state budget - in addition to previously announced funding to tourism and major events. Having...
May 14, 2016
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MEAA says live theatre devastated by Australia Council cuts
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance says that Australian theatre audiences, performers and stage crews are facing a bleak future as the Federal Government’s drastic arts...
May 13, 2016
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Government must clarify future of backpacker tax
As tourism businesses head to the Gold Coast for the Australian Tourism Exchange (ATE), the nation’s biggest annual travel and tourism ‘B2B’ event, the Australian Tourism Export...
May 12, 2016
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Chinese sports industry to be worth more than US$460 billion by end of 2020
The Chinese sports industry will surpass three trillion yuan (US$460 billion) by the end of 2020, according to the nation's newly released five-year sports development plan....
May 10, 2016
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Fitness
Australia Council announces $11.2 million backing for artists and arts projects
The Australia Council for the Arts has today announced $11.2 million of investment in Australian arts through its February grants round. Australia Council Chief Executive Tony...
May 9, 2016
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Further $5.75 million in funding for Albany's Centennial Park
The Western Australian Government is committing a further $5.75 million in funding for Albany's Centennial Park in its 2016/17 budget. The funding, through the Royalties for...
May 9, 2016
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Aquatics
Outback Queensland town of Eromanga gifted G20’s giant dinosaurs
After welcoming world leaders to Brisbane during the G20 Leaders’ Summit, a family of life-sized dinosaur sculptures has found a permanent home in the outback Queensland town of...
May 9, 2016
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TTF say Australian tourism should be key Federal election issue
With the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures on overseas arrivals showing 8.7% growth on the previous year, the Tourism & Transport Forum Australia (TTF)...
May 8, 2016
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Western Australian Government commits $30 million in events funding
Tourism in Western Australia is set to benefit from a $30 million boost in events funding as part of the 2016/17 budget. The funding includes $19 million to host major events at...
May 7, 2016
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Australia's cultural economy in a quagmire
In a newly released platform paper from Currency House, cultural economy expert Justin O’Connor passionately argues against the entrapment of the arts in the language of metrics...
May 7, 2016
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Tourism industry disappointed by backpacker tax retention
Tourism industry representatives have expressed bitter disappointment that the Federal Government has failed to make changes to the backpacker tax introduced in last year's...
May 7, 2016
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Great Barrier Reef tourism operators call for action to tackle climate change
A group of Queensland tourism industry stakeholders have broken silence about the degradation of the Great Barrier Reef, with more than 170 businesses and individuals appealing...
May 6, 2016
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Environment
Leisure winners and losers in the Federal Budget
Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison’s first Federal budget has revealed good and bad news for the leisure industry with the maintenance of funding for Tourism Australia balanced...
May 4, 2016
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Tourism growth exceeds overall expansion of the Australian economy
Tourism grew at three times the rate of the total Australian economy in the 2014/15 financial year, according to the just released Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Tourism...
May 2, 2016
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Government
Government's Catalyst arts fund makes allocations on eve of Federal budget
An Amy Winehouse exhibition and international tours by acclaimed Geelong art company Back to Back Theatre are among $10 million of arts projects to be supported by the Federal...
May 2, 2016
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Iran to invest US$30 billion in tourism projects to develop sector
The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has drafted an investment package for developing tourism sector which includes 1,500 projects worth at US$30 billion Announcing...
May 2, 2016
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