Northern Australia Tourism Initiative grant recipients

Gulf Savannah Development Incorporated

QLD

Burke, Carpentaria, Croydon, Doomadgee, Etheridge, Mornington, Tablelands, Mareeba

Gulf Savannah and Tropical Tablelands Tourism Small Business Advisory Service

Gulf Savannah Development, in partnership with Savannah Way and Tropical Tablelands Tourism will provide additional low cost small business advisory services to tourism operators and intenders in the Gulf Savannah and Atherton Tablelands regions. A small business officer and a team of qualified specialist consultants qualified across a range of fields including legal, financial, HR, IT and cultural issues, based within northern Queensland and very familiar with the issues confronting the Gulf and Atherton Tablelands regions, will travel regularly throughout the six shires of the Gulf, and the two shires of the Atherton Tablelands to deliver tailored business advisory services. The service provided will be designed specifically to address issues encountered by the tourism small businesses in the region and will be delivered mainly by face to face, telephone and email consultations.

$695,000

Gulf Savannah Development

Far North Queensland Promotion Bureau Limited

Trading as:

Tourism Tropical North Queensland

QLD

Cairns, Cassowary Coast, Douglas, Yarrabah

Tourism Tropical North Queensland Tourism Small Business Development Program

Tourism Tropical North Queensland will provide additional low cost small business advisory services to the Tropical North Queensland regions of Cairns, Port Douglas-Daintree and the Cassowary Coast. Services will be delivered through field officers working a Business Leaders Panel consisting of lawyers, accountants, recruitment and financial specialists, as well as local chapters of key tourism industry organisations.

Workshops and one-on-one sessions will be delivered via a range of methods that will best suit each individual business or potential operator and will be available across the region. Business development executives will be able to match businesses to advisory services.

$690,000

Tourism Tropical North Queensland

Cape York Sustainable Futures Incorporated

Trading as:

Tourism Cape York

QLD

Aurukun, Cook, Hope Vale, Kowanyama, Lockhart River, Mapoon, Napranum, Northern Peninsula Area, Pormpuraaw, Torres, Weipa, Wujal Wujal

Growing Tourism Businesses in Cape York

Cape York Sustainable Futures will provide additional low cost small business advisory services to the Cape York region through tourism business workshops, small group meetings, training by topic specialists, individual mentoring and tailored service delivery. Services will be flexible and reliable; they will encourage building and developing business networks, and will be delivered in accordance with issues in the Cape York region. Existing tourism businesses and tourism small business intenders will be able to review and analyse their business practices and ideas, enhance their business operations and planning, and be better prepared for the anticipated growth in tourism, resulting from the ongoing sealing of the Peninsula Development and Bamaga Roads.

$400,000

Business Enterprise Centre (Darwin Region) Incorporated

NT

Belyuen, Coomalie, Darwin, East Arnhem, Katherine, Litchfield, Palmerston, Roper Gulf, Tiwi Islands, VIC-Daly, West Arnhem, Unincorporated NT, Wagait

Making Top End Tourism More ResilieNT

BEC Darwin will provide additional low cost business advisory services to grow the skills of small tourism business operators and tourism small business intenders in the Top End of the Northern Territory. Delivery methods will include a combination of online and face to face business consultations and mentoring with an expert business advisor, completion of a business diagnostic tool, delivery of relevant small business workshops and seminars and the provision of access to a panel of professional business advisors, all designed and coordinated to assist tourism businesses to improve resilience, drive profits and reduce costs.

$698,820

Business Enterprise Centre Darwin Region

Business Enterprise Centre (Darwin Region) Incorporated

NT

Alice Springs, Barkly, Central Desert, MacDonnell

Making Central Australian Tourism More ResilieNT

BEC Darwin will provide additional low cost business advisory services to grow the skills of small tourism business operators and tourism small business intenders in Central Australia. Delivery methods will include a combination of online and face to face business consultations and mentoring with an expert business advisor, completion of a business diagnostic tool, delivery of relevant small business workshops and seminars and the provision of access to a panel of professional business advisors, all designed and coordinated to assist tourism businesses to improve resilience, drive profits and reduce costs.

$699,500

Business Enterprise Centre Darwin Region

Small Business Centre East Kimberley Incorporated

Trading as:

Kimberley Small Business Support

WA

Broome, Derby - West Kimberley, Halls Creek, Wyndham-East Kimberley

Kimberley Small Business Support - Tourism Small Business Advisory Project

Kimberley Small Business Support will provide additional low cost small business advisory services to the Kimberley in Western Australia from Kununurra to Broome, through a broad team of twelve business advisors strategically positioned throughout the region. Services will be delivered through a range of tourism industry focussed workshops at key locations in the region and through tailored one-on-one sessions with existing tourism small businesses operators and emerging tourism small businesses.

$700,000

Kimberley Small Business Support

Business Centre Pilbara

WA

Ashburton, East Pilbara, Exmouth, Port Hedland, Roebourne

The Warlu Way - tourism small business support and development for north west WA

The Business Centre Pilbara will provide additional low cost small business advisory services across the Pilbara and extending to the Ningaloo-Exmouth region of WA. A Business Advisor will travel regularly throughout the region to deliver tailored business advisory services to all tourism small businesses and tourism small business intenders, with a special focus on indigenous tourism start-up business intenders. Services will be delivered using culturally appropriate service delivery mechanisms and through a range of face-to-face or virtual/online meetings, one on one tailored business advisory services and small group training; and through facilitating networks and introductions to local mentors and other business advisory services and specialist professionals.

$698,166

Business Centre