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2010 Election Commitments by Party Against the TICT Platform
Posted on Thursday, 18 March 2010 | Permalink
The Tourism Industry Council Tasmania (TICT) has taken an active role during the 2010 Tasmanian State Election campaign on behalf of the industry. The TICT finalised a document in early December that outlined the key tourism commitments being sought at the State Election. This was sent to Labor, Liberal and the Greens and included three key tourism commitments and two tourism infrastructure commitments. Michelle O’Byrne, Jeremy Rockliff and Cassy O’Connor subsequently made presentations to the TICT Board in February to respond to the TICT document.
Since that time, each party has released a range of tourism policies and attached for your consideration is a link to the comparison document of these policies prepared by the TICT. While a politically active organisation, the TICT does not directly advocate for any political party and this information is provided to help you determine the policies that will best serve your business, your local area, your industry, and the state as a whole.
The Comparison Document outlines in detail the following summary points (click the link to view uploads/file/TICT/2010%20Election%20Comparison.pdf ):
- Table 1, page 1 – the policy commitments from each party against the five elements of the TICT platform;
- Table 1, page 2 – the other tourism relevant commitments from each party (note that not every policy sent to the TICT by each party has been included. Specifically, roads/transport commitments and those commitments where tourism is considered secondary have not been included. This has been applied consistently); and
- Table 2, page 3 – the ongoing tourism and events funding commitments that reflect the funding that Tourism Tasmania will have available to undertake its responsibilities.
Whatever the outcome of the election on Saturday, the tourism industry can be certain that each party has adequately considered the needs of tourism in developing its policy platform. With challenging times ahead for tourism, the commitment of the new Tasmanian Government after March 20 will be very important.
Daniel Hanna
CEO, Tourism Industry Council Tasmania
