Tourism award submissions take time — so why not set yourself up for success? Our top tip for creating a winning entry is simple: write a business plan. In this blog, we share a free template, proven strategies, and the inside scoop on how to make your submission shine, based on years of award-winning experience.

Thinking about growing or improving your agritourism offering? Across Australia, there’s a wealth of support available—if you know where to look. This guide breaks down the best tools, grants, training, and planning resources by state to help you turn your agritourism idea into a visitor-ready experience.

You’ve won! What a feeling!

Now, how to leverage your award to get the most benefit out of it? You earned it; be proud and tell the world!

Transformation is about achieving aspirations.

We need to look at our customers, residents, visitors, etc, and think about what they are aspiring to become. Only then can we start to design experiences that will help them achieve that aspiration.

It’s about the outcomes that people are looking for in themselves.

A series of Inspiring Agritourism webinars on best practice case studies to support agritourism development.

Randall Breen of Echo Valley Farm in the Goomburra Valley approaches farming and agritourism by developing intimate relationships and with ethical decision making.

What are the opportunities for regional tourism in 2023?

We’ve been mentoring a lot of agritourism operators over the last year.

Here we share examples of how our mentoring supported their business’ growth.

This is a tough topic that we hope a couple of recommended resources will help your business with. 

Tilma Group’s Director, Linda Tillman, attended Queensland’s tourism industry forum and shares her key takeaways.

Agriculture and tourism are Australia’s third and sixth largest export industries. Together, they provide a unique opportunity for growth, explored in Australian Regional Tourism’s Agritourism Convention. Here we share our key takeaways.

After the turbulence of the past few years now is a better time than any for tourism and event operators to tap into the expertise of a mentor.

It’s the perfect time to consider how to develop and grow exceptional Indigenous tourism businesses with Australia’s national tourism strategy, THRIVE 2030, prioritising the respectful embedding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures into the visitor economy through initial partnerships and ongoing inclusion, and the opportunity of growing unique and high-quality products, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences.

We are seeing a shift in consumer demand for sustainable travel. Travellers want to support destinations, events and tourism businesses that are being responsible and doing good for their community and the environment.

Insider grant writing tips from tourism grant writers, and from the agencies that provide grants

In this new era of travel, people are actively seeking experiences that enrich, awaken and transform them, and, eventually, the world.

They want to ignite something new within themselves by consciously connecting with and appreciating our extraordinary planet, its people and cultures.

Learn how to deepen engagement with your guests…

Are you prepared for the funding opportunity available to regional tourism?

There is currently significant federal, state and local government funding available to support regional tourism development and recovery from bushfires and COVID-19, ranging from arts and Indigenous grants to event and infrastructure grants.

What’s new for the 2021 Australian Tourism Awards plus links to information on your state’s tourism awards

A little mentoring goes a long way – our friend Suzanne from Icon Adventures picked our brains on how to write a media release about the new domestic tours she is doing in response to the COVID travel restrictions.

Her media release immediately got published, and she sold out her first new tour! Learn from our tips

How rural Coolamon (pop 2,200) increased tourist visitation using a new anchor attraction and a seasonal events campaign, and all the flow on effects…