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• Tickets to the NSW Tourism Awards Ceremony & Dinner are on sale now!
• Meet the Minister at Macquarie Street- Tuesday 11 October 2011
• Sydney Aviation capacity study findings due December
• REX Newcastle flights a boost for regional tourism
• Wanted: Women in Business
• Sydney Harbour YHA wins UNESCO Award
• TICNSW welcomes Carol Giuseppi to the Board
• Tourism the winner from NRL’s big day
• TICNSW welcomes our new Members
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A NEW NSW GOVERNMENT-
TICNSWs focus turns to converting commitments into real actions….

TICNSW Chairman Ken Corbett with Premier Barry O’Farrell
For TICNSW, with a new NSW Government now in place, the focus turns to converting the commitments made by the coalition in their Tourism Policy, launched in February 2011, into actions.
NSW Election – The Opposition launches NSW tourism policy….
The NSW Opposition announced their NSW Tourism Policy today stating that “A NSW Liberals & Nationals Government will create Destination NSW to sell NSW here and overseas, boost tourism funding by $45 million and strategically aim to double tourism in NSW by 2020.”
NSW Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell and Shadow Minister for Hospitality, Tourism and Major Events George Souris in their announcement said, “This is a plan to make NSW the number one tourism destination in Australia and double tourism in our state by 2020.A $40 million boost to the Destination NSW budget will drive our efforts to rebuild the State’s tourism industry”.
NSW Visitor Numbers on the improve ….
The latest official tourism statistics for both international and domestic visitation, recently released, showed strong improvement in the visitor numbers for NSW.
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