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Last week saw the dedication and talent of the region’s wine producers celebrated at the annual Langton’s Margaret River Wine Show. Congratulations to all MRBTA members who took part in the show and collected trophies at the gala dinner held at Leeuwin Estate last Thursday. MRBTA was again a proud…
The amnesty is over The superannuation guarantee amnesty period ended on 7 September 2020. Despite significant industry lobbying it was not extended and it appears highly unlikely to ever be repeated. The amnesty specifically covered superannuation shortfall amounts for the period 1 July 1992 to 31 March 2018. Any shortfall…
MRBTA members have reported a positive spring school holidays and strong forward bookings for the summer season, but outside of this, the next few months appear more unpredictable and we will continue to be responsive to members needing support over this time. Nationally, the tourism industry was buoyed last month…
Bundaberg in Queensland and Coffs Harbour in New South Wales are the first host locations to sign up for live streaming of the 2020 Global Eco Conference in a Satellite Node format. With the constraints on travel associated with COVID-19, the Global Eco Asia-Pacific Tourism Conference will for the first…
30 Days 30 Ways & Wander Vouchers Tourism WA Wander Voucher program will continue into November. The unused vouchers have now gone to a waitlist and will be valid until the 20th of November. Our complimentary campaign 30 Days 30 Ways, ran alongside the launch of the Wander Voucher program…
It was fantastic to get a boost of support from Tourism WA this month to address the struggling tour operator sector within the State. Off the back of the Wander Voucher scheme, we launched our own campaign ‘30 Days, 30 Ways’ to inspire West Aussies to redeem their vouchers within…
30 Days 30 Ways In order to support the wander voucher campaign led by Tourism WA, MRBTA decided to run a complementary campaign alongside this to encourage West Aussies to redeem their voucher within the Margaret River Region. So what is it? We’ve called our campaign 30 Days 30 Ways…
