About the Awards
Service Skills Victoria has established the Melbourne Airport Developing Tourism Leaders Awards aimed at students studying tourism, events and hospitality in Victoria.
The awards are an innovative employment development exercise for final year students to develop innovative small business/events concepts and business/events plans for tourism products. The business/events plans will be judged by a panel of industry representatives on the feasibility of the business/event, product innovation and knowledge of the tourism industry.
Program Objectives
- Foster entrepreneurship and innovation in the tourism industry
- Create a tourism industry driven workforce program
- Create an opportunity for students to showcase their business ideas to industry and to create employment opportunities
- Promote the establishment of SMEs as an employment option
- Foster strong links between industry standards and tertiary outcomes
A range of industry sponsored and themed prizes are available to the overall winner, award finalists and highly commended award winners.
Dates for 2010:
- Closing date for 2010 entries for the DTL Awards - 5PM Friday 15th October 2010
- Presentation night – 3-5PM, Monday 8th November 2010. VECCI, 486 Albert Street, East Melbourne
- Work placement workshop - TBA
Please check back for future key dates.