Tourism Tasmania

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Tourism Tasmania is the Tasmanian government's tourism authority.

It regularly partners with the Tourism Industry Council Tasmania in issues related to policies and plans. [1] In a number of governments, the Tasmanian Premier has also been Minister for Tourism. [2]

Re-incorporation

The Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau had office in all the capital cities of the states of Australia before the Second World War. [3] [4]

By July 1987 the Department of Tourism was renamed from the Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau to Tourism Tasmania. [5]

In 1989 Tourism Tasmania was amalgamated with the Department of Sport and Recreation to become the Department of Tourism, Sport and Recreation.

In 1997 Tourism Tasmania was established as a statutory authority.

In August 2002 the Department of Environment, Parks, Heritage and the Arts incorporated Tourism Tasmania.

Tourism Tasmania became a stand-alone State Authority from 1 July 2014. [6]

At various stages it has been also incorporated into other departments:

Notes

  1. ↑ Tourism Tasmania (1988), Corporate plan, Tourism Tasmania, retrieved 28 January 2018
  2. ↑ "Tasmania's tourism future". Canberra Times . Vol. 55, no. 16, 649. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 27 April 1981. p. 8. Retrieved 28 January 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ Moore-Robinson, J; Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau (1937), Historical brevities of Tasmania, Govt. Pr, retrieved 28 January 2018
  4. ↑ Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau Gallery (Melbourne, Vic.), [Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau Gallery (Melbourne, Vic.) : Australian Gallery File] , retrieved 28 January 2018
  5. ↑ Tasmania. Department of Tourism (1980), Tourism marketing strategy for Tasmania, 1980-1985, Dept. of Tourism, Tasmania, ISBN   978-0-7246-1013-6
  6. ↑ See https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/487037?c=people and Libraries Australia http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an35219771
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