Island Businesses | Feb 23rd 2010
The biggest get together of Visitor Information Centre operators from around the state arrive in Townsville today for the annual Queensland Information Centres Association (QICA) conference and they will soon be heading to Magnetic Island.
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Island Businesses | Feb 15th 2010
Townsville Enterprise (TEL) has changed it’s policy by scruitinising requests for editorial help from tourist publications following an alleged ruse involving at least ten Magnetic Island operators who are seeking a total of between $5,000 and $10,000 in repayments from a digital publishing company who, they allege, failed to provide a promised publication while falsely claiming to be associated or in a joint initiative with TEL. The publishers, ATK Global, had sought and received up-front payments, in one case, of over $1800 from the operators.
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Island Businesses | Feb 2nd 2010
Wednesday 24 February, from 5.30pm to 10pm at Peppers Blue On Blue, Tourism Operators & Businesses Magnetic Island (TOBMI), will host around 80 Visitor Information Centre staff from around Queensland who will be visiting Magnetic Island this month to see what the island has to offer tourists.
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Island Businesses | Nov 30th 2009
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Heads, tails and trivia
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An enthusiastic crowd gathered last Saturday night for the 2009 Magnetic Island Trivia night. Previously organised by MICDA, the newly formed Tourism Magnetic Island had been offered the challenge to continue the island tradition.
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Island Businesses | Nov 25th 2009
Magnetic Island is to have a new Local Tourism Organisation with Tourism Queensland. The new group will present Island businesses and residents with an opportunity to have a voice in how the island is represented. To launch themselves in the community the new group will present a Trivia Quiz Night, this Saturday, Nov 28 at the MI Country (Golf) Club.
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Island Businesses | Nov 14th 2009
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Ken Sisson
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Residents of Magnetic Island can now access free Home Sustainability Assessments to find out how to save energy and water around the house and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Island Businesses | Nov 13th 2009
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Sera Jane
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Sera Jane is a big Townsville singing talent with a film clip of her song “In My Town” now screening on Austar's Country Music Channel. And Sera is one of a number of musicians being lined up for what is evolving into a new Sunday session venue at Base backpackers in Nelly Bay. She will be performing there this Sunday.
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Island Businesses | Nov 5th 2009
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Graeme Wood
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Local business people with an eye to the benefits of web-based business and entrepreneurship could do well to hear Graeme Wood, founder of wotif.com, when he speaks at Jupiters next week.
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Island Businesses | Nov 4th 2009
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Ali with Karen at work in the new business
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With over 10 years on Magnetic Island as the face fronting bookings and reception counters of many Island accommodation houses, Ali Angus of Picnic Bay has finally taken her wealth of experience and training and opened Discovery Travel and Internet Magnetic Island, a new shop where Ali can advise Islanders of the best to be had on their holidays away and for visitors to find the best to be had on Magnetic when they arrive.
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$10,000 fee & interest free Green Loans
With Sustainable House Day on Magnetic Island, this Sunday September 13, it is also great to hear that Queensland Country Credit Union is helping move us towards sustainable solutions by offering interest and fee free Green loans [ read more ] |
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Arcadia Resort & bistro closed till September
On Tuesday this week the management of Magnetic Island's Arcadia Hotel and Resort suddenly reverted to the lease holders, Queensland Trustees & Investment Ltd, who had sub-let the major Island backpacker accommodation house to Norpubs', Mr Paul Casey [ read more ] |
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A Magnetic LTO raises sustainable hopes
On Sunday night about forty local business people attended a meeting to, “Have your say” about the imminent formation of a Magnetic Island Local Tourism Organisation (LTO) which has been developed by a number of Island business people since an informal meeting to gauge interest last September was prompted by Townsville City Council's Economic Development Unit [ read more ] |
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Change comes in a bag
How often have you visited the supermarket but forgot to bring your environmentally-friendly, reusable shopping bag? You were coming home from work and just dropped in for some essential tid-bits and, before you know it, you are walking out the door with another plastic shopping bag - the type the world's ocean's are choking on, that kill turtles and filled the stomach and killed poor old Whitey the croc, captured on Magnetic Island not so long ago [ read more ] |
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Magnetic Island Tourism: have your say
A Local Tourism Organisation (LTO) is being established on Magnetic Island and all interested individuals and business people are invited to attend the first networking function to be held on July 26 at All Seasons Magnetic Island (formerly Magnetic International Resort) [ read more ] |
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“Guilt free” tourism for Magnetic
“When people think of holidaying in Queensland, we want them to feel assured it will be a ‘guilt-free’ experience as far as climate change, carbon footprints or environmental impact are concerned,” was how, State Tourism Minister, Peter Lawlor stated his aim yesterday when he announced that Magnetic Island was to be one of five pilot locations for Tourism Queensland's Sustainable Regions for Queensland project [ read more ] |
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eBay classes on Magnetic start tomorrow
As the impact of the global economic crisis continues and as unemployment rises, people concerned about their job and income prospects as well as retirees, hobby income earners, and even garage junk sellers, are looking to re-skill themselves for a different kind of future [ read more ] |
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Free resilience workshop for businesses
The North Queensland Small Business Development Centre and the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation are presenting business workshops to assist Magnetic Island and Townsville business people to improve their business's resilience to crises and disaster events [ read more ] |
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Tourism awards future in doubt
The future of Townsville Enterprise's North Queensland Tourism Awards is in doubt and with lower numbers of participants nominating, Townsville Enterprise has opened nominations to enter the Awards to all regonal tourism operators and not just Townsville Enterprise members [ read more ] |
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