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Subscriber only Interactive street art, innovative honey dispensers, a find-a-pet-sitter service, and an invention making hydraulic flow testing safer. These are just some of the products pitched at an event at Split Spaces in Mackay on Friday night including from the founder of Mackay s Laneway Project which beautified the CBD with colourful murals. Qualified art educator Jodie Connolly said she wanted to enrich people s lives through contemporary art and engaged with Mackay artists as a creative matchmaking service . We included augmented reality, Ms Connolly said. Mackay Laneway Project founder Jodie Connolly presented at Split Space s quarterly Pitch Perfect event on Friday, May 14, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
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Nominations are now open for a new tourism awards program which recognises Queenslandâs diverse and outstanding regional destinations.
The Top Tourism Town Awardsâ¯aim to recognise and rewardâ¯townsâ¯thatâ¯offerâ¯an amazing visitor experience, where tourism operators, businesses, and the local communityâ¯workâ¯together to make their town the best destination.
Theâ¯Queensland Tourism Industry Councilâs initiative will have two categories â Top Tourism Town Award â those with a population over 5000; and Small Tourism Town Award â those with a population below 5000.
QTIC chief executive Daniel Gschwind said the program was being introduced in each state and territory this year, in parallel with but separate from the Australian Tourism Awards series.