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List of Awards

The following awards are suitable for entry by tourism businesses and individuals:

Tasmanian Tourism Awards

The Annual Tasmanian Tourism Awards, presented by the Tourism Industry Council Tasmania, recognise tourism products, services, individuals and businesses that have achieved success and contributed to the tourism industry in Tasmania.

The Tasmanian Tourism Awards offer the following categories:

  • Major Tourist Attractions
  • Tourism Marketing
  • Tourist Attractions
  • Tourism Education and Training
  • Major Festivals and Events
  • Tourism Restaurants and Catering Services
  • Festivals and Events
  • Tourism Wineries
  • Ecotourism
  • Tourist and Caravan Parks
  • Heritage and Cultural Tourism
  • Backpacker Accommodation
  • Indigenous Tourism
  • Hosted Accommodation
  • Specialised Tourism Services
  • Unique Accommodation
  • Visitor Information and Services
  • Standard Accommodation
  • Meetings and Business Tourism
  • Deluxe Accommodation
  • Major Tour and/or Transport Operators
  • Luxury Accommodation
  • Tour and/or Transport Operators
  • New Tourism Development
  • Adventure Tourism
  • Outstanding Contribution by an Individual.

The Tourism Awards are held at both a state and national level. Initially, businesses enter the state Tourism Awards and winners in these categories are then automatically entered into the national Tourism Awards.

See the TICT website

Australian Hotels Association Awards for Excellence

The Australian Hotels Association (AHA) Awards for Excellence provides hotels with the opportunity to showcase their pursuit of excellence. The categories and criteria reflects the diversity of AHA membership from city, suburban and country hotels, accommodation hotels and casinos.

Categories available for entry in the AHA Awards for Excellence include:

  • Best Country Hotel
  • Best Gaming Venue
  • Best Bar Presentation and Service
  • Best Bottle Shop Outlet
  • Responsible Service of Alcohol
  • Responsible Service of Gaming
  • Best Budget/Pub Style Accommodation
  • Best Mid-Range Accommodation
  • Best Superior Accommodation
  • Best Entertainment Venue
  • Best Sporting Entertainment Venue
  • Best Cellar Safety
  • TOTE Initiative Award
  • New Establishment Award
  • Best Redeveloped Venue
  • Outstanding Community Service and Achievement
  • Best Employee F&B
  • Best Employee Front Office
  • Best Employee Kitchen
  • Best Employee Gaming
  • Best Training Initiative
  • Best Marketed Establishment
  • Kool Fuel Kids Dining Menu
  • Best Restaurant in a Hotel
  • Best European Restaurant
  • Best Asian Restaurant
  • Best Seafood Restaurant
  • Best Modern Australian Restaurant
  • Best Informal/Family Dining RCA
  • Best Informal/Family Dining AHA
  • Fine Dining Award
  • Café Award
  • Caterer of the Year Award

Hotels are judged by an independent judging process, which is predominantly based upon on-site judging. This reflects the service aspect of the industry.

See the AHA website

Business Enterprise Centre Awards

Every year BEC Australia holds awards for performance in business. To be eligible, the business must have been assisted by their local Business Enterprise Centre (BEC), and entered into the awards by the BEC. There are three categories – Best New Business, Best Home Based Business and Best Micro Business. These represent the major client groups assisted by BEC’s around Australia.

Information can be found on the BEC Australia website, when the awards are launched each year.

Community Achievement Awards for Tasmania

These awards are about recognising individuals, organisations and groups who are making a difference in our local communities and our State. There can never be enough encouragement and support for those working towards making our State a better place. Awards such as these create an opportunity to say thank you to those who work tirelessly to develop and improve in their chosen field of endeavour.

Nominations are open in these categories:

  • Department of Economic Development, Tourism and the Arts Business Enterprise Award
  • Franklin Press Events and Tourism Award
  • MAIB Disability Achievement Award
  • Nyrstar Environment and Sustainability Award
  • Volunteering Tasmania Volunteering Award
  • Qew Orchards Outstanding Achiever Award
  • Angove Family Winemakers Primary Industries and Agricultural Award
  • Kleenheat Gas Community of the Year Award

See the Community Achievement Awards website

Eco Tourism Australia - William Angliss National EcoGuide Australia Award for Excellence

This award will honour a highly successful Certified EcoGuide in the Australian tourism industry whose skills and experience demonstrate that they are of an exceptional standard. This award is only available to Ecotourism Australia ‘Certified EcoGuides’.

The selection criteria for this award are detailed on the ecotourism website

Electrolux – Appetite for Excellence Award

Applications are open to career focused young hospitality professionals, currently residing in Australia and working full-time in the restaurant industry. All of the entries are assessed by a judging panel comprising some of Australia’s leading chefs and restaurateurs. Once entries have been received, each judging panel selects participants from each state.

Two to three young chefs and waiters are selected from each state and four to five young restaurateurs are selected from around Australia

See the Electrolux website

Employer of Choice Awards

The Tasmanian Government is investing in the economic future of Tasmania by assisting employers succeed in attracting and retaining skilled workers to support the growth and sustainability of their business.

The Employer of Choice Awards celebrate and reward workplaces that adopt modern work practices and promote a work-life balance as part of a strategy to attract and retain skilled workers.

See the Employer of Choice website

HMAA Accommodation Industry Awards for Excellence in 2009

The HMAA Accommodation Industry Awards for Excellence in 2009 are NATIONAL awards. Members range from bed & breakfast operators to apartments, tourist parks, major international hotels and motels – a true Australian Accommodation association.The HMAA Accommodation Industry Awards for Excellence has been established to assist in maintaining a higher standard within the accommodation industry.

See the HMAA website

IAA Awards

There are two separate awards programs. The Awards for Excellence for great interpretive projects and the commemorative Georgie Waterman Award for outstanding individual contribution to the profession. All awards are presented each year at the IAA AGM.

 

IAA National Awards for Excellence in Heritage Interpretation

The IAA has Awards for Excellence to help foster greater professional interest in interpretation, increase community awareness of the nature and importance of interpretation and encourage the exchange of new ideas. IAA awards are now open to non-IAA Members.

See the IAA website

IAA - The Georgie Waterman Award

The Georgie Waterman Award recognises individuals who have made an outstanding and sustained contribution to the development of the profession of interpretation in Australia.

For information about this award, contact Rachel Faggetter: rachelf@deakin.edu.au

Tasmanian Awards for Environmental Excellence

The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is hosting the Tasmanian Awards for Environmental Excellence.

The Awards recognise and reward contributions to the enhancement, preservation and protection of the Tasmanian environment.

The EPA invites entries from individuals, schools and industry, community and government sectors in seven award categories -

  • Large Business Sustainability
  • Small Business Sustainability
  • Community: Presented for leadership, commitment and excellence in protecting and enhancing the environment in Tasmania by individuals or community groups.
  • Education: Presented for the development and delivery of educational programs addressing and contributing to the protection, enhancement and sustainability of the Tasmanian environment.
  • Local Government: Presented for the development and implementation of environmentally sustainable initiatives by a local government or regional authority in Tasmania.
  • Environmental Stewardship: Presented for the protection, conservation or enhancement of freshwater resources, marine environments and land systems.
  • Leadership in Climate Change Action: Presented for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and/or adaptation to, or mitigation of, the impacts of climate change in Tasmania.

Category winners will be nominated for the national Banksia Awards and one will receive the Minister’s Choice Award.

See the EPA website

Tasmanian Export Awards

Tasmania can be justly proud of its record of export achievement. Tasmanian Export Awards provide recognition for this success, raise awareness of the vital contribution exports make to the state’s economy and provide a catalyst for companies to reach even higher levels of excellence.

The awards program is recognised as one of the more important events of the business calendar. It is the state’s highest recognition of excellence for companies exporting goods and services, and is held in high regard throughout the world.

The categories of the Tasmanian Export Awards include:

  • Agribusiness Award
  • Arts, Entertainment, Design, Events and Tourism Award
  • Education Award
  • Emerging Exporter Award
  • Information and Communications Technology Award
  • Small Business Award
  • Manufacturer Award
  • Services Award
  • Regional Exporter of the Year Award
  • Tasmanian Exporter of the Year Award.

See the Tasmanian Export Awards website

Tasmanian Training Awards

The Tasmanian Training Awards are conducted annually by the Department of Education’s Office of Post-Compulsory Education and Training (OPCET), in conjunction with the Tasmanian Learning Skills Authority.

The Awards recognise, reward and honour the achievements of apprentices, trainees and vocational students for their endeavours in gaining the highest standards of knowledge and skills within their industry.

They also recognise and honour the achievements of employers, small businesses and training organisations for their dedication to providing the highest quality training and enhancing the skills of the workforce in the state.

The awards offer finalists the chance to gain personal satisfaction and opportunities in their industry, as well as the enhanced prestige of being part of an elite group of placegetters who represent the State’s best in vocational education and training.

Awards are offered under the groups of Equity Awards, Student Awards and Business Awards.

As a guide, nominations close in June, short listed interviews take place in August and winners are announced in September.

See the Tasmanian Training Awards website

Telstra Business Awards

The Telstra Business Awards program was introduced by Telstra in 1992 to recognise the achievements and enterprising spirit of small businesses across Australia. Formerly known as the Telstra Small Business Awards, the program was developed to help profile Australian businesses. Since Telstra has been running the awards, participation in the program has grown significantly

These awards provide businesses with a range of business benefits, designed to add real value to their bottom line. These awards are an opportunity for all eligible businesses to celebrate their achievements and seek recognition for their valued contribution to our country.

See the Telstra Business Awards website

Telstra Business Women’s Awards

The Telstra Business Women’s Awards have become an integral part of the Australian business calendar, celebrating the achievements of some truly remarkable women.

Telstra Business Women’s Awards occur at a state and national level. With state awards occurring in the first instance and state winners of each of the three business categories automatically become eligible for the overall state/territory winner, with that overall winner becoming a finalist in the National Awards Ceremony.

The awards have three main business categories: Business Owner Award, Private and Corporate Sector Award and Community and Government Award

Additional awards include Young Business Women’s Award and Business Innovation Award

See the Telstra Business Women’s Awards website

Tourism for Tomorrow Awards – international awards based out of London.

There are a number of different categories many of which would be applicable to our operators: Conservation Award, Community Benefit Award, Global Tourism Business Award.

See the Tourism for Tomorrow Awards website

Young Achiever Awards

The purpose of the Young Achiever Awards is to acknowledge, encourage, reward and most importantly promote the positive achievements of young Australians aged between 14 and 26 years of age.

The awards are conducted on a state basis in Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

See the Young Achiever Awards website

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