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City of Newcastle is currently updating the Destination Management Plan (DMP) in order to deliver a targeted approach to tourism.

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Learn how to avoid making common business plan mistakes and create a one page business plan using the Business Model Canvas tool (© Strategyzer) to ensure your business is on the path to long-term success.

This 20 minute practical and hands-on webinar will give you the tools to put your business plan on a page, with 10 minutes for question time.

This webinar will provide you with an easy to adapt approach to thinking about your business in terms of your value proposition, how you market and who you market to, who your key partners are and more.

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Ensuring your business is inclusive to people with disability is crucial, for not only your business but also for your reputation.

The opportunity for you as a business is massive, with the value worth $10.8 billion to the economy (and that’s just tourism!).

This webinar covers the importance of being accessible friendly and how you can make your business accessible to all with the assistance of some steps and the use of a practical checklist.

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A pilot program includes a deep business assessment, followed by one on one mentoring sessions tailored for the specific business needs. Program runs from Sep 2020 – Feb 2021.

The 15 participants include:
Baked Uprising, Blackbutt Reserve, Christ Church Cathedral, CoastXP, Earp Distilling Co, Mitch Revs Gallery, Newcastle Afoot, Newcastle Backroad Tours, Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club, Newcastle Ghost Tours, Newy Rides, Nova Cruises Pty Ltd, The Lock-Up, Underground Epicureans and Urban Hum.

The Product Development Mentoring Program is being funded as part of the City’s Community and Economic Resilience Package and builds on other industry-based support including more than $500,000 in Industry Response Program grants developed in collaboration with the City Taskforce.

Destination NSW delivers the NSW First program to assist tourism businesses around the State to develop, promote and sell their tourism products. It includes face to face workshops and online webcasts that offer ‘how-to’ insights on a range of topics for the tourism industry, with events to be added to the calendar throughout the year.

NSW First program

The Business Centre brings together government and non-government agencies, banks and financial services providers, mental health and well-being providers, to offer support and provide information, and services, that lead to sustainability and job creation, to small businesses during and after COVID-19.

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