ECTT networking & Industry Recognition Award - Positive Impact
ECTT Board announcement
Vote For Binalong Bay - Tassie Top Tourism Town
Accommodation Roundtable
Freycinet Visitor Gateway project
PIP online session 16 June 5.30pm - 7.00pm
Paint The Town Red Progressive Dinner
Tasmanian Mushroom Festival Field Day
Eat Local, Stay Local voucher program launched
The Off Season - Winternships
2025 Tasmanian Tourism Conference
Electric Vehicle Workshop
TICT Insurance Survey
THA Awards for Excellence
THA Occupancy Stats
Events Tasmania Marketing Grant
Red Tape Reduction portal
What's On - Events
Business Grants available
ECTT networking & Industry Recognition Award
You are invited to join us, together with the Tourism Industry Council of Tasmania (TICT), for a networking evening and to celebrate the winner of the 2025 Positive Impact Industry Recognition Award.
Tuesday 10th June
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Easy Tiger
7 Pendrigh Place, St Helens
The award will be presented following an informative TICT Electric Vehicle workshop being held from 4.00pm - 5:30pm at Easy Tiger, St Helens.
Following a competitive recruitment process, ECTT is pleased to welcome Jason Unwin and Greg Ross to the Board. Our new Directors were put through their paces as they joined our recent Board workshop to review our current stream of work and define our priorities that will guide the organisation into the future.
Jason Unwin
Jason is Chair and Managing Director of Easy Tiger, Cinema, Brewery, Bar and Eateries in St Helens. Jason has started and grown a number of businesses in Australia and brings a wealth of business knowledge across many facets of the business world. Jason now resides on the East Coast of Tasmania and is passionate in helping to drive and develop the hospitality and tourism sectors in the region to help the area grow and prosper.
Greg Ross
Greg began his tourism career at 17 as a concierge in Sydney following a period of time living in Japan. He soon entered aviation tourism, working as a tour guide with Sydney Heli Tours and later on Hamilton Island.
In 2023, Greg and wife Gabrielle founded Freycinet Air Tasmania, a family-owned aviation business based at Friendly Beaches.
ECTT Board and Team at last week's Board workshop held at Spring Bay Mill.
BINALONG BAY: Come for the views. Stay for the soul.
The Tassie Top Tourism Town competition is about promoting local pride in our regional towns, while showcasing the unique experiences that can only be found in regional Tasmania.
Eight Tasmanian towns have been announced finalists in the 2025 Tassie's Top Tourism Town Awards; Binalong Bay,Beauty Point, Bothwell, Deloraine, Devonport, Port Arthur, Richmond and
Stanley
There's a voting link HERE where you can cast your vote and go in the draw to WIN a Tassie Getaway valued at over $4,000!
Binalong Bay entry video
Accommodation Roundtable
ECTT recently joined our RTO colleagues together with the TICT, THA and other government leaders for a discussion around staff housing challenges in our regions. The session resulted in a set of actions that will soon be available to share with you. We will continue to advocate strongly for our operators and our region.
Steve Old (THA), Damian Mather and Jen Fry (ECTT) & Amy Hills (TICT)
Freycinet Visitor Gateway project
Consultation and Feedback
A series of community information sessions were held in May providing members of the public with the opportunity to view the preliminary site concept plans for the Freycinet Visitor Gateway and to talk with Parks and Wildlife Service staff about the project. You can still provide feedback on the preliminary plan via email to: freycinetgatewayproject@parks.tas.gov.au by Friday 6 June 2025.
ECTT Positive Impact Plan (PIP) online session
Throughout April and May, the ECTT team together with episteme Consulting, held a series of community conversations to listen and understand ideas for the future of tourism on Tasmania's East Coast. If you were unable to attend in person, or if you have thought of some more ideas to contribute, please join our online conversation on Monday 16 June, 5.30pm - 7.00pm.
A big thank you to everyone who took part in our Positive Impact Plan Operator Survey. Thanks to the generous support of Pennicott Wilderness Journeys and Easy Tiger St Helens, respondents had the chance to win some great prizes. A big congratulations to Tristan and Anna, we will be in touch with you directly to claim your prize!
Paint The Town Red Progressive Dinner
Join the Swansea Chamber of Commerce for the Paint the Town Red 'Progressive Dinner Party' celebrating the winter solstice!
Dress Code : RED
Time : 4:30pm onwards
Includes: 2 complimentary drinks, canapés, dinner, dessert, live music & transport.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to explore the world of fungi. Whether you're new to mushrooms or keen to deepen your understanding, the event offers education, creativity, and local produce.
Renowned ecologist and environmental photographer Alison Pouliot, will also be launching her new book Fungi Obscura. LEARN MORE
Something to share?
We want to hear from you! Tell us what is new and newsworthy, whether from your business or from around the region.
The Tasmanian Government has launched a new voucher program to drive intrastate travel this winter, with 100,000 vouchers valued at $100 available to Tasmanians for eligible accommodation, hospitality and experiences.
Registrations for the Eat Local, Stay Local program are now open! Tourism businesses do not need to register for the program and do not accept the vouchers. Voucher recipients will make their purchase as a normal transaction and use the receipt to claim their reimbursement through the Department of State Growth, which is overseeing the initiative. Read theprogram FAQs for more details.
Winter Just Got A Whole Lot Cooler
Introducing Winternships
Tourism Tasmania has collaborated with tourism operators in each region to design 10 ‘Winternships’, or Winter Internships, based on their Off Season offer.
From baby-sitting Tasmanian devils to skippering a floating sauna, and our very own East Coast "Fragrance Forager" there’s a unique winter experience for every visitor.
To amplify the initiative across earned and social media, Tourism Tasmania recruited comedian, writer and actor, Celia Pacquola to take on a series of Winternships to demonstrate what it really means to become a ‘winter person’. Learn more here.
2025 Tasmanian Tourism Conference
Resilience & Reinvention: Tourism in a Changing World
The Tasmanian tourism industry’s major business and networking event is back for 2025.
Join operators, leaders, and innovators from across the state for two energising days of future-focused thinking, collaboration and connection at the 2025 Tasmanian Tourism Conference, themed ‘Resilience & Reinvention: Tourism in a Changing World’.
Tourism Industry Council Tasmania, the Australian Electric Vehicle Association and Electric Highway Tasmania are hosting statewide workshops this month to guide operators through investing in electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.
Triabunna:
10 – 11.30am, Tuesday 10 June | Spring Bay Mill | Register now
St Helens:
4 – 5.30pm, Tuesday 10 June (precedes the ECTT Industry Recognition Awards) | Easy Tiger | Register now
Tourism operators across the state have been saying for some time that the cost and accessibility of insurance is impacting their businesses. TICT is working with Dr Allison Anderson from episteme Consulting to better understand the challenges for industry around insurance and to start working on possible ways to improve the situation. Completing this survey will help us see where the real issues lie – and the more responses we collect, the more powerful the insights will be. Please share with any operators in the visitor economy. All responses are strictly confidential.
Everything you need to know about this year’s nominations process can be found in the downloadable guide below. Please read it carefully to find the right category for you.
We’re calling on all East Coast accommodation venues to register for the Tasmanian Hospitality Association’s monthly occupancy statistics reporting.
Your data is vital in painting a full picture of how our beautiful region is performing— and the more venues that participate, the stronger and more accurate our voice becomes.
If you’d like to get involved, register above or contact Jordan Lewtas (jordan@tha.asn.au), or Sally Taylor (sally@eastcoasttasmania).
Events Tasmania Marketing Grant 2025-26
Events Tasmania Marketing Grant for 2025-26 is now live for events taking place between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026 offering valuable support to help promote events across the state.
Full details and the application form are available now on theEvents Tasmania website, or the team is happy to help via phone on (03) 6165 5022.
Tasmania to become start-up capital of Australia - Red Tape Reduction
The Tasmanian Government is committed to cutting red tape and making Tasmania one of the best places in Australia in which to do business. “Red tape” is usually defined as excessive or unnecessary complexity, regulations, processes and bureaucracy that results in delays or inaction.
It includes a situation where a business or member of the community needs government permission to do something – usually in the form of a permit or approval – and that permission is unreasonable, heavy-handed, slow or outdated. View the portal and report any challenges you have experienced.
What's on
There's so many great events, markets, live music, classes and activities to get involved with on the East Coast.
To see the whole schedule for this year and beyond
There are a number of industry grants and funding opportunities now available to help support your business visit the website
The Tasmanian tourism industry acknowledges the Tasmanian Aboriginal people and their enduring custodianship of lutruwita / Tasmania. We honour 40,000 years of uninterrupted care, protection and belonging to these islands, before the invasion and colonisation of European settlement. As a tourism industry that welcomes visitors to these lands, we acknowledge our responsibility to represent to our visitors Tasmania’s deep and complex history, fully, respectfully and truthfully. We acknowledge the Aboriginal people who continue to care for this country today. We pay our respects to their elders, past and present. We honour their stories, songs, art, and culture, and their aspirations for the future of their people and these lands. We respectfully ask that tourism be a part of that future.
East Coast Tasmania Tourism Inc, PO Box 115, Bicheno, Tasmania 7215, Australia
