Federal Tender Awarded for Development of Tourism Industry Resilience Kits
Brisbane- EC3 Global, in partnership with
Insight Communications andBigBridge, has been awarded the tender
for developing an Industry Resilience Kit to help Australia's
tourism industry plan for, respond to and recover from external
natural, health related, economic or other shocks that are beyond
their control.
The kit is an outcome of the National Long-Term
Tourism Strategy, and is being developed under the auspices of the
Industry Resilience Working Group (IRWG), which is chaired by
Tourism Queensland's CEO Anthony Hayes. The IRWG includes each of
the State and Territory Tourism Organisations and the
Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism (DRET).
"The tourism industry is uniquely sensitive to risk
and crisis," explained Mark Olsen, GM for EC3 Global. "A range of
major weather events inAustraliaand globally over the past 12
months has highlighted this more than ever before. Recognising
this, the IRWG anticipates the kit will help the tourism industry
to be better prepared for future risk or crises and be better able
to recover and return to business after the event."
The Tourism Industry Resilience Kit will cater to both small and
medium sized tourism business (SMTEs), as well as Regional Tourism
Organisations (RTOs).
For small SMTEs, the kit will provide information that will help
them to prepare for, mitigate, respond to and recover from crises
as a means of preparing businesses for external shocks and limiting
exposure to business failure following the event. The kit will
deliver user-friendly content that recognises the time-poor nature
of SMTEs.
For RTOs, the kit will help them to understand their own role in
preparing SMTEs to be more resilient to risk and empower them to
respond in the event of crises.
The IRWG recognizes that we all learn differently
and that we are at different stages of readiness for a crisis so
the Kit will be produced in both hard copy and as an online
e-brochure that will build on existing tools and tailor them to the
needs of the tourism sector. It is expected that the kit will be
available to the industry in the second half of 2012.
Queensland Minister for Tourism, Manufacturing and
Small Business Jan Jarratt said the Tourism Industry Resilience Kit
promised to be an important new initiative that would have
practical applications to assist tourism operators around the
country.
EDITOR'S NOTES
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