{"id":5649,"date":"2012-06-29T17:01:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T07:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2012-06-29T17:01:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T07:01:40","slug":"tourism-boss-urges-caution-over-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/06\/29\/tourism-boss-urges-caution-over-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Boss Urges Caution Over Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>June 27, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Local tourism leader <strong>Mary-Clare\u00a0Power<\/strong> has warned that the recent announcement by the State Government of a doubling in funding to regional tourism organisations does not mean that assistance to the local group would automatically be doubled.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Executive Officer\u00a0at\u00a0&#8220;Toowoomba Golden West &amp; South Burnett Tourism&#8221; and &#8220;Southern Downs &amp; Granite Belt Tourism&#8221; advised tourism operators today not to get too excited by the announcement which was made at the DestinationQ Forum in Cairns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This week at the inaugural DestinationQ Forum in Cairns Premier Campbell Newman and Tourism Minister Jann Stuckey announced a doubling of funding for Regional Tourism Organisations. This will see funding increase from $3.11 million to $7 million per year,&#8221; Ms Power said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is great news for regional tourism, however, before we all get too excited, this does not mean our funding is doubled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new funding will be contestable, meaning we will be competing against our RTO colleagues for a slice of the pie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As with any funding news, the devil&#8217;s in the detail and we await further information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Be assured we have a &#8216;wish list&#8217; of initiatives that are crying out for financial support and your RTO will be putting forward projects that work toward the Newman Government&#8217;s target to double overnight visitor expenditure by 2020, and add an extra $15 billion dollars flowing into the Queensland economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are ambitious targets. Some might say overly ambitious. Our region has a role to play and I ask all of you to take up the challenge of eating this elephant &#8216;piece by piece&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related article: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/06\/funding-doubled-for-regional-tourism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Funding Doubled For Regional Tourism<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local tourism leader Mary-Clare Power has warned that the recent announcement by the State Government of a doubling in funding to regional tourism organisations does not mean that funding to the local group would automatically be doubled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3,10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tourism Boss Urges Caution Over Funding - 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