North Coast Tourism Symposium Program
Thursday 27th July | Peppers Resort & Spa, Kingscliff
“Redefining Normal”
What is normal in a post-COVID world and how to leverage the evolving trends to remain market leaders? This year’s North Coast Tourism Symposium program sets out to explore changing trends in consumer attitudes and behaviours including transformative digital technology and the demand for the integration of wellness and sustainability principles in products and destinations. The North Coast Tourism Symposium 2023 will be anything but normal and we look forward to you joining us.
TIME |
PROGRAM |
| 8.30am – 8.45am | REGISTRATION OPEN – tea and coffee available |
| 8.45am – 9.10am | Welcome & Conference Opening |
| 9.10am – 9.55am | Opening Keynote – Eliane Miles – Changing times, emerging trends: Responding strategically to the trends impacting tourism – View presentation here. |
| 9.55am – 10.25am | Destination North Coast – Michael Thurston – Update & Outlook – View presentation here. |
| 10.25am – 10.55am | Caravan and Camping Industry Association – Kylie Robertson – The Caravan and Camping comeback… again – View presentation here. |
| 10.55m – 11.25am | MORNING TEA |
| 11.25am – 11.55pm | Australian Tourism Data Warehouse – CEO Jan Hutton – The Future of ATDW: A New Dawn – View presentation here. |
| 11.55pm – 12.25 pm | NSW NPWS – Andrew Turbill – Redefining engagement with nature – View presentation here. |
| 12.25pm – 1.00pm | Panel Session – Eliane Miles, Jan Hutton & Stewart Moore, Earthcheck – Reconceptualise – capitalise – normalise |
| 1.00pm – 1.50pm | LUNCH |
| 1.50pm – 2.20 pm | Green X7 – Tim Jack Adams – Thriving Sustainability |
| 2.20pm – 2.50pm | Destination NSW – Bohdi Lewis – What to do when it all feels new (again) |
| 2.50pm – 3.20pm | Tourism Australia – Dominic Mehling – Tourism Australia and the international opportunity – View presentation here. |
| 3.20pm – 4.00pm | Symposium Co-hosts Tweed Tourism Company – Sally Scott and Tiffany Stodart – Rail Trail to Recovery – View presentation here. |
| 4.00pm – 4.15pm | Symposium Wrap Up and Key Take-aways – Michael Thurston, GM |
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