I enjoy working as part of a small team, it opens a lot of doors that may not normally be opened for someone in their 3rd year of a ‘professional’ role. In 2020 I also became Chair of YTN, which has been a fantastic experience and large learning curve for me. I continue to have this role, and in 2020 have also taken on responsibilities around Government relations and engaging with federal departments and MPs around the importance of the caravan industry to Australia and especially in regional communities. I received an internship opportunity through VTIC for a tourism research project on the Great Ocean Road, this gave me a ‘foot in the door’, and led me to successfully get a role with Caravan Industry Association of Australia in Research & Insights at the start of 2018. It also allowed me to see myself as being able to have a tourism career while remaining closer to home in the first instance, which was important to me after several years overseas. Tour leading was deeply rewarding, but immensely tiring and not exactly the healthiest lifestyle, so two years was sufficient.įrom there I enrolled in Monash University’s Sustainable Tourism Management program with an idea that I would end up working in destinations and helping communities develop their tourism offerings, however the course actually opened my eyes to the issues and opportunities in Australia’s tourism sector. This gave me a love of travel and a thirst to understand more about the sector and, I suppose, progress in the industry. It took a few years, but in 2015, I got a role with Topdeck Travel in Europe working as a Trip Leader, taking groups of up to 50 people around for up to 7 weeks at a time. During that degree, I took a year off to travel in Europe in 2012 and while I was in Croatia, I met a European Tour Leader and was so blown away by their travel/lifestyle, I decided I wanted to give that a try at some point. I definitely didn’t know I always wanted to work in tourism, I originally moved to Canberra from regional Victoria after high school and studied my Bachelor of International Relations at ANU. What/where did you study? Did you always want to go into tourism and events marketing or is that something you fell into? First thing’s first: to help our readers get to know you, tell us a bit about yourself and your career journey so far.
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