I HAVE MADE MYSELF AVAILABLE TO GIVE SERVICE ON THE TOURISM VICTORIA BOARD.
I meet tourism and recreation, business management, event management, and investment facilitation, criteria Board Members need.
The UN Policy that tourism, when owned , or majority shared by regional interests, can be a vital force for sustaining those regions, is my Policy.
I argued for this over many years when I was CEO of an Affiliate of the UN’s World Tourism Organisation. In that capacity I represented a Consortium of Australia’s largest Professional Firms in Land Planning, Architecture, Economics, Tourism Planning, and Engineering.
See www.aussiestone.com/alleviatingpover.htm
Australia needs one dynamic and progressive State, to take action now and lead the way show the other States how to increase domestic and inbound visitors, and sustain Regional areas with long stay, big local spend, visitors. This could easily be Victoria. However it won’t happen without some changes being made from our present, 30 year, behind the times, “pogo sticking” Visitor Centres, They continue to offer their “PASSIVE RESPONSE”, give them a brochure after they arrive, approach. Instead we need to be offering an active response, active WEB follow up, new type, 7/24 multi options, special interests, multi lingual, local hostings fully integrated with the new type, local transport, local attractions, local shopping arrangements.to become the next, most sought after, long haul, long stay, big spend on local products, special interest experiences, world destination.And Regional Australia needs a new type, as best suits them, link up, to Australia’s globally respected, Aboriginal peoples, their culture, music and arts. For an explanation how best to do this, do a Google search for the” Aboriginal and Outback Experiences Super Highway” and review again the number one solution on the WEB where I explain how to do this.
My vision and links for attracting the, GOTWS, Giant Overseas Tourist Wholesale Suppliers can be seen on www.yestogether.com. I have visited others in Berlin, at the ITB who have told me .”Give us what we want, and we will give you what you want, which can be many many 100 person groups of long stay, special interest, affluent visitors, from 500 a week to 30,000 a week. We can do this if your arrangements and 7/24, multi lingual, multi choice, options for tours and hostings on arrival are right.
We can get Victoria free global publicity as we have links to FIJET which has 2000 networked overseas Travel Journalists and Travel Program Producers. They could provide Australia’s first co-operating State with much free publicity , but only after certain 7/24 hostings and special interest
experience options, and local , get about, transport arrangements were put in place. They are not interested in providing, same old, same old, PR. See.
http://www.yestogether.com/free-global-travel-publicity/can-australia-enjoy-free-global-travel-industry
-publicity-it-can-provided-that-it-makes-changes-to-how-it-attracts-welcomes-and-hosts-overseas-visitors
For further details on FIJET See http://www.fijet.net/
There are as well six additional new concepts, that if given a Board Position, I could introduce to Tourism Victoria.
These would all be new National (and global) Tourism Development and Promotional Initiatives.
They being.
NEW TOURISM FILM FESTIVAL
1. An annual World, Tourism, Special Interests, Short Films, Competition, Festival that would have Film Makers from all over Australia , of all ages, competing to make free promotional Film and TV product that could then be subsequently used to promote Victoria on the WEB, Youtube,
mobiles and IPads.
NEW NATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL
2. A new type all ages, and different type teams, national Sports Festival, permanently based in Victoria that would attract visitors continually , all year, from all over Australia and from Overseas.
NEW REASONS TO “GO RURAL VICTORIA”
3. A new type of “Regional Visitor Treasure Hunts” that would combine local touring with puzzle solving leading to a Visitor winning a Monthly (major sponsors) Prize Awards, good enough to attract a continuing flow of Visitors from all States of Australia to Victoria to participate .
NEW RURAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
4. The establishment of a new Global, Regional Areas, Tourism Development Institute somewhere in Rural Victoria. This would attract a continuing stream of Local Government Officers from all over Australia and overseas, coming to see how Tourism Victoria was transforming its numbers of long stay, big local spend visitors, into Victoria, and more than all of the other States.
NEW VISITOR NEEDS SERVICING TECHNOLOGY
5. New Technology that could be taken up first by Victoria’s accommodations establishments and that would put them far ahead of all other States of Australia, and make Victoria a magnet for attracting increased domestic and overseas visitors to Regional Victoria, and to Melbourne.
NEW TOURISM WINNERS HALL OF FAME
6. A Global Tourism Achievers and Originators Hall of Fame, that would recognise the Australian, and the “World’s Best Tourism Industry leaders and Winners” and thereby further promote Victoria as the Australian State to visit.