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ACT LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION ON NOTICE NO. 874
CHIEF MINISTER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION
Question No. 874
Tourism Commission - Employees Overseas Travel
MS CARNELL - Asked the Chief Minister upon notice on 17 August 1993:
(1) During the 1992-93 financial year how many employees of the Tourism Commission travelled overseas on official business.
(2) What was the nature and purpose of each and every trip.
(3) What was the total cost of each and every trip.
MS FOLLETT - The answer to the Members question is as follows:
(1) During the 1992-93 financial year 2 employees travelled overseas on official
business, on a total of four trips.
(2) The Sales Manager represented the ACT on an official trip to Papua
New Guinea (PNG), as part of an Australian Tourist Commission mission
to promote Australia to the travel industry in PNG. This area of the South
Pacific holds significant potential as a target market for Australia and the
ACT. - -
The Sales Manager represented the ACT on two occasions at South-East Asian trade and consumer shows in conjunction with members of the local tourism industry. Highly successful retail training seminars and sales calls were also conducted in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.
The Marketing Director joined the NSW Tourism Commission in its "Mission Japan 93" as part of a cooperative exercise to promote NSW and the Australian Capital Territory. The trip opened an important and cost effective avenue for marketing the ACT in one of our prime target markets.
All overseas trips were undertaken to increase the awareness of the ACT as a tourist destination and were consistent with the Commissions Marketing Strategy.
(3) The trip to PNG cost $995, including a heavily discounted airfare. The two
trips to South-East Asia cost, in total, $9,150 and the trip to Japan was
$6,980. The total cost of the four overseas trips was $17,125.
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