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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 ...

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.

The Sunshine Coast Destination Ltd (SCDL) has won the right to host the 35th Australian Tourism Export  Council (ATEC) Symposium on the Sunshine Coast from 1 -4 May 2012.  The announcement came during this year’s ATEC Symposium gala dinner on Hamilton Island. A TEC is the peak body representing a tourism export industry annually worth nearly $25 billion, and the  ATEC Symposium is the largest conference on the tourism industry calendar. The Symposium attracts over  500 representatives of the Australian Tourism Export Industry, travel specialists and tourism operators. The  four-day Symposium incorporates touring options, an informative business program, as well as destination  ‘showcase’ events, including a gala dinner and inbound tour operator pre-and post tour familiarisations  throughout the region.  The direct delegate spend from hosting the ATEC Symposium 2012 is estimated in excess of  $1million not including pre-and post touring co...

It is very well accepted that a body corporate cannot delegate the power to enforce by-laws. Taking action for breaches of by-laws is something that only a body corporate can do. It cannot farm that right out to third parties - including resident managers. Most caretaking agreements include a specific reference to the resident manager’s role when it comes to by-laws. So, a few golden rules when it comes to these situations: It is not resident managers role to physically enforce by-laws. Resident managers are not required to manhandle people out of the pool after hours or physically tow their cars. All they can, and should, do is make the people aware of the fact that they are breaching the by-laws. If there are potentially dangerous issues (like a wild party in a unit), then the police should be called.  Be aware of the different hats you may be wearing. One is as a caretaker and one is potentially as a letting agent. If the people in the pool after hours are owners the...

A new What’s in your backyard program has been designed by Business Events Sunshine Coast (BESC) for the tourism industry to learn more about fellow operators in the region. Launched in early April 2011, the first program was attended by more than a dozen local industry. Participants were exposed to 10 local businesses including: Blue Laguna vessel cruise with ‘Cruise Maroochy Eco’, which departed from the historic Mount Coolum Wharf  Bedazzled Events gourmet onboard catering and theming Site inspection of the newly reopened Yandina Station, including event venue space and new luxury cabins  High tea provided by Yandina Station and entertainment by Aaron Jazz (courtesy of Zest Factor Entertainment) Theming by Wicked Wolf Events and Twig & Grace Florist   Segway Eco Tour by Corporate and Group Xperiences Transported in convoy by local operator BCT Transfers.  The What’s in your backyard program will run several times a year and include...

The Real Estate Institute of Australia has put forward a Pre-Budget Submission to the Commonwealth  Government identifying a range of areas which affect housing affordability that need to be addressed in the  2011/12 Budget. REIA’s submission calls on the Government to: • Retain current arrangements for negative gearing of property investments; • Ensure that the family home will not be subjected to Capital Gains Tax (CGT); • Commit to no increase in Capital Gains Tax on property investment; • Remove stamp duty on property transactions; • Review the First Home Owners Grant (FHOG); • Allow first home buyers access to their superannuation for the purchase of a home, and; • Monitor the Housing Affordability Fund (HAF) and National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) to  observe their effects on housing supply and conduct a review which considers additional measures  to bridge the demand - supply imbalance The REIA urges the Government to review the amount curren...