INNOVATION, TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE 2018 ESTIMATES PRE-HEARING QUESTION ON NOTICE No. 1 THE INNOVATION, TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE ASKED THE MINISTER FOR INNOVATION AND TOURISM INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT AND MINISTER FOR THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES (HON K JONES) ― QUESTION: With reference to the Department of Innovation, Tourism Industry Development and the Commonwealth Games’ SDS page 12 budget summary total expenses – will the Minister provide a detailed breakdown of individual program funding cuts including (a) staff profile, (b) capital expenditure and (c) operational expenditure from 2017-18 to 2018-19 that accounts for the $199.764 million reduction? ANSWER: There have been no funding cuts to Tourism Industry Development programs in 2018-19. I refer the Committee to Note 2 on Page 12 of the SDS. The change in the 2018-19 Budget relates to the completion of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games and the finalisation of the delivery of the recovery response to Tropical Cyclone Debbie. INNOVATION, TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE 2018 ESTIMATES PRE-HEARING QUESTION ON NOTICE No. 2 THE INNOVATION, TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE ASKED THE MINISTER FOR INNOVATION AND TOURISM INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT AND MINISTER FOR THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES (HON K JONES) ― QUESTION: With reference to Department of Innovation, Tourism Industry Development and the Commonwealth Games’ SDS page 37 outlining Tourism and Events Queensland’s (TEQ) service summary – will the Minister disclose the total value of hospitality expenses for Tourism and Events Queensland for 2016/17 and 2017/18 breakdown by position: a) Chair; b) CEO; and c) All other TEQ employees (combined)? ANSWER: The provision of hospitality is part of TEQ's core business as the state's lead marketing, major events and destination and experience development agency. Hospitality is for official purposes only, must be necessary for TEQ to conduct its business effectively, efficiently and economically and properly documented, budgeted and approved by the appropriate delegate in accordance with high standards of public accountability. Some examples of hospitality expenses include: providing meals and refreshments for regional stakeholder and industry forums such as TEQ's Conversations with Industry; hosting high level stakeholders in Queensland such as airlines and tourism trade partners; and hosting key stakeholders and partners when travelling in key international source markets. The below table provides TEQ’s hospitality expenses in 2016-17 and 2018-18. 2016-17 2017-18 Chair $0 $0 Chief Executive Officer $5,769 $2,577 TEQ Employees $186,957 $156,375 TOTAL $192,726 $158,952 INNOVATION, TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE 2018 ESTIMATES PRE-HEARING QUESTION ON NOTICE No. 3 THE INNOVATION, TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE ASKED THE MINISTER FOR INNOVATION AND TOURISM INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT AND MINISTER FOR THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES (HON K JONES) ― QUESTION: With reference to Department of Innovation, Tourism Industry Development and the Commonwealth Games’ SDS page 37 Queensland’s events calendar – will the Minister provide a list of (a) all events funded in 2016-17, (b) all events funded in 2017-18, (c) all events that have committed funding in 2018- 19, and (d) all events secured for Queensland beyond 2018-19? ANSWER: Since the election of the Palaszczuk Government, we have more than doubled the value of the Queensland Events Calendar from $380 million in 2015 to $780 million in 2018. Events supported by TEQ in 2016-17 Event Name Event Name Event Name Noosa Ultimate Sports Abbey Medieval Festival Crush Festival Bundaberg Festival NRL Brisbane Double Header, Melbourne Storm v ADC Forum Australian Dalby's Delicious and Gold Coast Titans and Leadership Retreat DeLIGHTful Festival Manly Sea Eagles v Brisbane Broncos NRL Telstra Premiership E&E Waste Hell of the Round 17 - South Sydney Adventurethon Townsville West Triathlon Rabbitohs vs North Queensland Cowboys AFL Masters National EA Annual Awards Night Palm Cove Reef Feast Carnival Agnes Blues, Roots & Rock Easter Vintage Festival PBR Iron Cowboy Festival Airlie Beach Race Week Feast of the Senses Port Douglas Carnivale Festival of Sailing Event Name Event Name Event Name Airlie Beach Running Felton Food Festival Qantas Wallabies v Italy Festival Annual Metabolomics Qantas Wallabies vs South Society International First Coat Festival Africa Rugby Test Conference Gatton Heavy Horse and QPAC International Series Aquis Showjumping Classic Heritage Festival Field - The Royal Ballet Days 40th Anniversary Arts in the Olives Gemfest 'Festival of Gems' Quandamooka Festival Asia Pacific Stroke Gladiators: Heroes of the Queensland Garden Expo Conference Colosseum Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Gold Coast Airport Quiksilver Pro and Roxy Conference (ARVO-Asia Marathon Pro Gold Coast 2017) Australian Camp Oven Gold Coast Film Festival Regional Flavours Festival Australian Festival of Relish Food and Wine Golden Mount Festival Chamber Music Festival Australian Open Lawn Roma's Easter in the Gravitate Bowls Championship Country Australian PGA Great Barrier Reef Masters Sand Safari Arts Festival Championship Games Australian Surf Life Saving Scenic Rim Clydesdale Gympie Music Muster Championships Spectacular Scenic Rim Eat Local BIGSOUND Have A Go! Festival Week SeaLink Magnetic Island Birdsville Big Red Bash Heartland Festival Race Week Heritage Nanango Country Snow White by Ballet Birdsville Races Muster Preljocaj Society for Conservation Hervey Bay Seafood Blackall Heartland Festival Biology 4th Oceania Festival Congress Bleach* Festival Historic Leyburn Sprints Spirit of Bundaberg Festival Blues on Broadbeach Storyology Festival - InkFest 2016 Music Festival Satellite workshop International Conference BMX National Straddie Salute Triathlon for Tropical Medicine and Championships Festival Malaria IRONMAN 70.3 World Boulia Camel Races Surfers Paradise LIVE Championship Brisbane Global Rugby Isuzu Queensland Open Swell Sculpture Festival Tens Golf Championship Brisbane International IWA World Water Congress Taste Port Douglas Food & Garden Show & Exhibition Wine Festival Brisbane International Jackie Howe Festival of the Tastes of the Tablelands presented by Suncorp Golden Shears Event Name Event Name Event Name Jeep Magic Millions The 14th WONCA World Burleigh Pro Carnival, Sales and Rural Health Conference Raceday Jewel World Triathlon Gold Cairns Airport Adventure Coast and Gold Coast The CQUniversity Village Festival Triathlon - Luke Harrop Festival Memorial The Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society (ANZBMS) and the International Federation of Julia Creek Dirt n Dust Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Musculoskeletal Research Festival Societies (IFMRS), in conjunction with the Japanese Society for Bone and Mineral Research (JSBMR). Jumpers & Jazz in July Cairns Ukulele Festival The Planting Festival Jupiters Pan Pacific Caloundra Music Festival The Walkley Awards Masters Games The World Federation for Lights on the Hill Trucking Capricorn Film Festival Mental Health International Memorial Convoy Conference Capricorn Food and Wine Toowoomba Carnival of Mackay Festival of Arts Festival Flowers Magic Millions National Touch Football Bundaberg Captain Cook 1770 Festival Sale Cup Carlton Mid Cairns Maroochy Music and Visual Townsville 400 Amateurs Carnival Arts Festival Marvel: Creating the Townsville Triathlon Castrol Gold Coast 600 Cinematic Universe Festival Toyota AFL Premiership Round 17 - Western Childers Festival Mary Poppins Festival Bulldogs vs Gold Coast SUNS Tropical Journeys Great McDonald's Townsville CMC Music Awards Barrier Reef Marathon Running Festival Festival Mooloolaba Triathlon CMC Rocks QLD Tropical Mardi Gras Festival UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire Coates Hire Coolangatta Mount Isa Mines Rotary Indigenous Cultural Gold Rodeo Festival Coates Hire Ipswich Super Mountain Bike National Viva Surfers Paradise Sprint Championships Cooly Rocks On 50s and Wanderlust Sunshine NetFest 60s Nostalgia Festival Coast Event Name Event Name Event Name Warwick Gold Cup CQPhysio Group Capricorn Nickelodeon Slimecup - Campdraft & Australian Coast Running Festival Audition 1 Championship Rodeo 17th World Sterilization Nikon-Walkley Awards for Whitsunday Reef Festival Congress Photography in Excellence 19th International Winton's Vision Splendid Symposium on Recent Noosa Festival of Surfing Outback Film Festival Advances on Otitis Media 2016 Clancy Corporation Noosa Food and Wine Lake Moondarra Fishing Woodford Folk Festival Festival Classic 2017 Oceania Continental MTB Championships & Noosa International World Science Festival XCO and DHI National Rugby7's Festival Brisbane Series 2017 TOTAL BWF XVI International Mine Noosa Summer Swim Badminton Sudirman Cup Surveying Congress Noosa Triathlon Multi Sport Yarrabah Band Festival Festival Events supported by TEQ in 2017-18 Event Name Event Name Event Name FASAVA Congress - Federation of Asian Small Quandamooka Festival Abbey Medieval Festival Animal Veterinary 2018 Associations Congress 2017 ADC Forum Australian Feast of the Senses Queensland Garden Expo Leadership Retreat AFL JLT Community Quiksilver Pro and Roxy Series – Gold Coast SUNS Gemfest 'Festival of Gems' Pro Gold Coast vs Geelong Cats Agnes Blues, Roots & Gold Coast Airport Rockhampton River Rock Festival Marathon (2017) Festival Airlie Beach Festival of Gold Coast Film Festival Routes Asia 2018 Music Airlie Beach Race Week Gold