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Business Events Sunshine Coast (BESC ) in partnership with Tourism Queensland is holding an 'All about Business Events’ workshop. Tourism Queensland has recently launched a multi-million dollar incentive campaign to position Queensland as a world-class incentive destination and BESC is one of four Queensland bureaux participating. Two Incentive sector specialists will be presenting at the workshop: Anna Stewart, Director of Queensland Conventions & Incentives and Sonja Soderbom AFMEA, Manager, Destination Management from arinex. Date: Thursday 23 June 2011 Time: 8.30am – 1.00pm (Morning tea & lunch will be provided) Venue: Novotel Twin Waters, Ocean Drive, Twin Waters RSVP: to sarah.power@tq.com.au by Monday 20 June For further information: contact Pippa McCreery, Business Events Manager 07 5458 8802 or email: pippa@scdl.com.au

The Green June calendar, which is co-ordinated by the Sunshine Coast Council includes festivals and events such as World Environment Day which attracts over 5,000 people every year, the Living Smart Glossies Awards evening with Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, a series of Compost and Worm Farm Workshops, the Living Smart Solutions Expo, the Ecoflicks Film Festival, Noosa Festival of Water and Floating Land.   Cr Keryn Jones believes the month-long eco-focussed calendar provides those looking for ways to reduce their environmental footprint with a number of options to learn more and implement changes in their everyday work and personal lives.   “We can pride ourselves in having one of Australia’s most naturally beautiful and diverse regions and we have a responsibility to protect it for future generations.  If we are to become Australia’s most sustainable region we need to change how we do things on a daily basis and the events throughout Green June help give us the skills and tools to do so,” sai

A NEW one-stop shop for business is the centrepiece of a major overhaul of council’s economic development functions. As part of its commitment to the Jobs for the Coast campaign, Sunshine Coast Council announced establishment of a new Economic Development Advisory Board and will consolidate its Economic Development Branch with its small business support agency, Sunshine Coast Enterprises (SCE). The board will provide an independent source of advice from respected business leaders and will include board members of SCE. It will create a single entry point to council for information on starting a business, moving a business to the region or accessing business support services. Small businesses, which make up more than 95per cent of all businesses in the region, and are the backbone of the economy, are struggling with higher operating costs, uncertain markets and the flow-on impacts of recent events in Queensland.