TOURISM AWARDS WINNERS

CELEBRATING THIS YEAR’S

TASMANIAN TOURISM AWARDS WINNERS

The 2022 Tasmanian Tourism Awards Gala at Wrest Point was a celebration of innovation, excellence and quality in our great state’s tourism industry, and honored all of this year’s entrants, finalists and medalists.

The category winners, including nine first-time Tasmanian Tourism Award gold medalists, will represent Tasmania on the national stage at the Qantas Australian Tourism Awards to be held in Sydney in March 2023. Our Tasmanian winners have been judged as meeting the very highest standards of excellence in Australian tourism through a rigorous and notoriously challenging submission process. All categories included a 10,000-word written submission covering all aspects of the tourism operation, which was judged against key criteria by a panel of respected and experienced judges. Every entrant was also judged through an online review, which benchmarked the business or product’s presence and engagement in the digital environment. The final outcome for most categories also included a visit from a site judge and consideration of consumer sentiment.

Nunami Sculthorpe-Green and Premier Jeremy Rockliff - Photo Credit: Alastair Bett.

Also announced at the Awards Gala were the Tourism Minister’s Young Achiever and the Tasmanian Tourism Champion for 2022. Premier Jeremy Rockliff presented Nunami Sculthorpe-Green with his Award for Young Achiever, recognising her contribution to truth-telling and the representation of Tasmanian Aboriginal stories through her tourism initiatives. Nunami is a proud palawa and Warlpiri woman, and founder of Blak Led Tours. Her first tour, ‘takara nipaluna’ (Walking Hobart), premiered at the 2021 Ten Days on the Island Festival, and Nunami then partnered with Theatre Royal to regularly deliver this experience. She has also recently launched ‘mumara patrula/wood for the fire’, a walking tour along the coastline of Trial Bay that encourages guests to deepen their knowledge and understanding of the Tasmanian Aboriginal community and culture.

Alison and Liana Stubbs - Photo Credit: Alastair Bett.

Tourism Industry Council Tasmania Chair, Daniel Leesong, recognised Alison Stubbs as this year’s Tasmanian Tourism Champion, the Tasmanian tourism industry’s highest individual honour. Alison has traversed the industry as an entrepreneur, award-winning adventure tourism operator, pioneering board director, senior accommodation manager, and passionate advocate for tourism excellence. After commencing her tourism career as a guide, Ali co-founded Freycinet Adventures, an ecotourism business on the east coast that went on to win seven Tasmanian Tourism Awards and enter the Tasmanian Tourism Hall of Fame. In 2006, she became the youngest ever appointment to the board of Tourism Tasmania, a role she held for six years. She has also served as a longtime Director of Tasmania’s East Coast Regional Tourism Organisation, and has contributed to the Tasmanian and Australian Tourism Awards panels for more than a decade, including three years as Chair of Judges.