BNBT Corporate Blog

We start with a feature story on the Asian self-drive market where we uncover what opportunities this presents for Bundaberg and how you, as tourist operators, can leverage these opportunities.

Bundaberg, 6 February 2019: Kicking off 2019 with a bang, Bundaberg Rum has just scooped three new awards for their Queensland distillery and Spirit of Bundaberg Festival, seeing off many international competitors to put the Bundaberg Rum Visitor Experience firmly on the map as ‘World’s Best’. The recent influx of awards across the Distillery continue to establish the Visitor Experience as a bucket list tourist attraction for domestic and international travellers...

The Bundaberg Visitor Information Centre is now located at 36 Avenue Street, East Bundaberg, with the corporate offices of the RTO, right next door in Spring Hill House.

The new Centre’s proximity to iconic local tourist attractions makes it even more convenient for visitors. With over 100,000 people visiting the Bundaberg Brewed Drinks Barrel and the Bundaberg Rum Distillery Experience each year, the new VIC is perfectly placed to tap into this well-established captive audience! Pop in to visit the team...

Congratulations to the Mon Repos Turtle Volunteers, Bundaberg Rum Visitor Experience, Bundy Food Tours, Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort and Kelly’s Beach Resort for all coming home with awards at the 2018 Queensland Tourism Awards on the Gold Coast. These awards recognise the outstanding achievements of the states’s tourism industry...

The Southern Great Barrier Reef destination (encompassing the Bundaberg, Gladstone & Capricorn regions) is now featured across a range of 5 wholesale brochures found in store and online. Helloworld Travel and its wholesale brands including AOT Inbound, a.t.s. Pacific, ETA, Qantas Holidays, Viva! Holidays, Sunlover Holidays, ReadyRooms, Need it Now, Go Holidays and Insider Journey are committed to promoting and selling Australian holidays. This is the largest tourism trade distribution that any tourism business could wish for and we congratulate our participating operators, including Lady Elliot Island, Lady Musgrave Experience, Bundaberg Rum and Kelly’s Beach Resort.

With so many sporting groups, car clubs, conferences and events with their eye on the Bundaberg region, we are pulling together a Master Event Calendar to keep a track of what’s happening in the region. With specific consideration to people traveling from outside of the region looking for accommodation and things to do...