Greater Melbourne Events Support
The Victorian Government is providing grants to small and medium event organisers across Greater Melbourne to assist with the costs associated with running events. – check your eligibility and applications will close at 4pm on Tuesday 28 February 2023.
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Australia StreetArt Awards
These awards expand the appeal of Australian towns, regions and destinations that have invested in publicly-accessible art and promote Instgrammable destinations, with original artworks. Open to artists, towns, events and more. Click for info, plan early.
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Disability Action Plan support
Getaboutable has developed some supporting tools for businesses starting their Disability Action & Inclusion Plan
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Building inclusive and diverse workplaces for wellbeing and business success.
This short video talks about how diversity and inclusion supports a healthy workplace culture and enhances the wellbeing of employees and the business itself. (3:17 min)
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Find a mentor
Tourism and the broader Visitor economy is full of smaller and medium size businesses, a mentor for business or even career paths can be very useful. We have collated a few mentor resources for you to start your own journey.
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Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander connections
Welcome to the VTIC industry support hub. We have collated contacts, connections, reading and more for our evolving tourism and events industry inclusive of our First Peoples of Victoria
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VTIC Insights Series – Mature Age Workforce in your business
The mature workforce has emerged as an experienced and eager workforce that is ready and willing to help fill these vacancies.
The biggest challenges are – where to start, how to best connect with this cohort, and how to do it successfully? A facilitated webinar will bring three panelists together with some great insights.
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Awards – Industry Contacts & Business Planning Resources
This page has a variety of mentors and submission writers in the tourism and events industry. Some get very busy, so its important to plan early.
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Tip sheet on diversity in the workplace
We live in an increasingly diverse society and in turn, our workplaces are celebrating diversity and placing a greater focus on inclusion to create a more harmonious work experience.
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ListenABLE postcast
Not directly focused on the visitor economy.. but a great tool for gleaning some perspectives on inclusion and access.
Hosts Dylan Alcott and Angus O’Loughlin speak to people living with disabilities about their lives and ask them the questions you thought were off-limits
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Submission Writers & Mentors
This page has a variety of mentors and submission writers in the tourism and events industry. Some get very busy, so its important to plan early.
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