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In the Year of Indigenous Tourism, Queensland’s Sunshine Coast’s rich Indigenous heritage and spectacular coastline are being celebrated with the launch of a new Indigenous cruise operator, Saltwater Eco Tours. Operating from Mooloolaba, Saltwater Eco Tours is using a century-old historic timber sailing vessel, Spray of the Coral Coast, to showcase the…

From farm gates to food tours and freshly caught seafood, the Sunshine Coast’s food scene is rich in its diversity. Here you can meet the makers and hear their stories, pick your own produce, sample award-winning cheese and take cooking classes from the best. Visit Sunshine Coast invites you to…

Residents are encouraged to pick up the phone, text or email their friends and family and invite them to the Sunshine Coast. They can also use the VSC website to send digital postcards that show off their favourite part of the region while inviting friends and family to visit. Those…

Sunshine Coast tourism operators are ready to welcome back visitors – and are using a pineapple to show they are open for business. Visit Sunshine Coast (VSC) has today launched a series of quirky new marketing videos that see tourism operators ‘pass a pineapple’ around the region. The Big Pineapple…

Sunshine Coast Airport has joined forces with the Queensland Government and Alliance Airlines to launch a new service to Cairns, allowing Queenslanders in the far north and the south east to enjoy the best of both worlds direct from their doorstep. Flying three return services per week from 17 July,…

Local Sunshine Coast business, Creative Tours and Events is introducing new interactive food tourism tours online. The ‘Meet the Maker at Home’ virtual series to debut this week will feature a beer and food pairing session presented by Matt Jancauskas of Brouhaha Brewery. Each experience will deliver local produce to…

The National Visitor Survey (NVS) and International Visitor Survey (IVS) results for the year-end December 2019 have been released by Tourism Research Australia. Details can be found here:

Habitat Noosa everglades eco camp, an innovative tourist attraction which commenced operating in July 2018 has taken out the Gold award in the New Tourism Business category at the Australian Tourism Awards in Canberra last Friday night. Habitat Noosa is owned and operated by local brothers Wade and Paul Batty…

Enticing delegates to the Sunshine Coast is big business. And it’s not just high-profile business events that attract tourist dollars. Small group incentive tours can provide a very welcome mid-week boost for Sunshine Coast accommodation providers and venues. This week, Business Events Sunshine Coast (BESC), a division of Visit Sunshine…