Tourism, Leisure & Event Management

This site contains links to organisations which manage, consult research or teach tourism.

What you need to know if you are considering starting, or expanding a business on the Sunshine Coast.

Information about starting and running a business, plus how to apply for grants and other support.

Covers what to consider when starting a business, business registration, what assistance is available, plus importing and exporting information.

A group of city and regional offices that market their locations as business events destinations.

Trade bodies for companies that create, develop and manage trade and consumer events.

Online publication for the event industry in Australia

Information by Tourism Australia to help plan business events in Australia

Peak industry body

Produces primary research studies into exhibitions as a marketing medium

Represents companies and industries involved in the exhibitions and conventions industry.

Association for organisations and individuals directly involved in the management of exhibitions and buyer-seller events

Supporting and enabling the world's festivals and events

Association for the global creative events industry

Non-profit
independent organisation

The World Bank provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe.

92 cities across all continents except for Antarctica driving climate change policy at the city-level.

Non-profit
Inspire sustainable and culturally responsible tourism, while representing the interests of ecotourism operators.

Independent global community for the discussion and development of knowledge on technologies in Travel and Tourism industry.

Authority on, contributor to, and developer of sustainable travel and tourism in the Asia Pacific Region.

Non-profit
The Sunshine Coast tourism promoter.

Non-profit
Promoting responsible tourism practices

Peak industry group for Australian tourism, transport, aviation, and investment sectors.

Queensland Government's agency for the marketing, promotion and development of tourism and events in Queensland.

Australia's premier tourism body, promoting and researching tourism in Australia. It covers both the international and domestic travel markets promoting Australia's activities relating to leisure and business events.

Non-profit
Travel marketing, planning, and development

The United Nations agency for the promotion of sustainable and accessible tourism.

A forum for business leaders in the travel and tourism industry

The European Commission represents the general interest of the EU and is the driving force in proposing legislation (to Parliament and the Council), administering and implementing EU policies, enforcing EU law (jointly with the Court of Justice) and negotiating in the international arena.

The OECD groups 30 member countries sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy. With active relationships with some 70 other countries, NGOs and civil society, it has a global reach. Best known for its publications and its statistics, its work covers economic and social issues from macroeconomics, to trade, education, development and science and innovation.

The World Bank provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe.

View & compare data for the UN, including climate and CO2 emissions, GDP & tourism data, population statistics such as infant mortality and male/female ratios and social indicators, such as life expectancy, literacy rates or number of refugees.

Listing done by the UN Economic Commission for Europe

This tool allows users to generate graphs based on numerical data extracted from the CIA Factbookand other sources (all cited), to make it easy to engage with the indicators that shape global commerce, health, politics and ecology.