With the Whitsundays events season well underway, and gathering steam, our region comes alive with iconic events and festivals. Congratulations to the Whitsunday Running Club, the Coral Sea Marina Resort Triathlon Festival, and the Great Barrier Reef Festival for their recent hugely successful events – packed with visitors and contestants. With the Airlie Beach Race Week and Hamilton Island Race Week now upon us – the visitation and exposure that these events bring to the region is incalculable. We sincerely thank the organisers and volunteers – the entire region benefits from your efforts. These regional events depend on local business support and financial contribution.
Our local businesses play a big role in investing in our community for everyone’s benefit. As a thank you, be sure to support those businesses with a purchase, a social media shout out, online review, or refer your family and friends, as they help make these events come to life.
And our local businesses play a high role in our region’s economic future.
This week, the Whitsundays Chamber of Commerce and Industry released news of its Vision for the Whitsundays project, with the ambitious aim to map a forward-looking economic blueprint. Our research uncovered diverse perspectives and challenges within the business community. These included the importance of our diverse districts, the need to engage in passionate debates about preservation and progression, and the big economic projects and what this means for the business community.
The Vision for the Whitsundays project contributes to our advocacy platform of representing the interests of the Whitsundays business community across all levels of government. Our advocacy platform already has our Ten Point Plan which aims to reflect and clearly articulate the major current issues of shared aspiration and concern. The Vision for the Whitsundays project now provides us with a complementary piece of work that aims to look long into the future.
Additionally, with the Queensland State Election looming and a Federal Election next year, the Chamber will soon be engaging our members to identifying business priorities for our elected representatives to address. In this work, we will also be strengthening our relationship with Business Chamber Queensland and other stakeholder groups to help amplify the needs of regional Queensland businesses.
by Chamber President, Allan Milostic
Vision for the Whitsundays: A Bold New Future Unveiled