QTIC - Queensland Tourism Industry Council

Connecting Tourism for Business Success is a useful one-stop-shop guide for every business in the tourism industry. This is the third edition of the guide, which will point you in the direction of information, publications and networks for businesses at every stage of the business lifecycle.

This is an action of the Queensland Tourism Strategy led by QTIC in partnership with DEEDI and TQ, which facilitates small and medium sized tourism enterprises to overcome growth challenges through an integrated process of business development.

To download the guide click on Connecting Tourism Brochure 2009

This Water Safety Handbook has been produced as an outcome of the Queensland Visitor Safety Working Group, for the purpose of providing best practice guidelines for tourism operators to assist in keeping Queensland’s visitors safe in all aquatic environments. It is intended that tourism operators refer to these guidelines to develop their own operations manuals and to utilise the checklists to conduct regular safety audits. 

The Water Safety Handbook can be downloaded here.

Australia's strata title governance and management models for tourism accommodation have been put under the spotlight in new research undertaken by Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre (STCRC). The report has determined that in the long term, branded hotels represent the most commercially viable form of strat titled tourism accommodation (STTA). In addition to identifying the most commercially viable STTA, the researchers have also made nine recommendations in relation to good practice delivery. The industry release including a link to the full report can be found here.

The Tourism and protected area management research snapshot publication groups key STCRC conducted over the past four years into five distinct topics – visitors, interpretation and communication, economic evaluation, partnerships and planning and management. The summary publication has been developed as a resource for protected area managers, tourism operators wishing to improve their park based business or who are seeking new business opportunities, communities adjacent to national parks, environmental, state and national parks government agencies, academic and education institutions and students. The free report can be downloaded here.