Statutory Information

Annual Report 2012-13

Board Committees

Audit, Finance and Risk

The Audit, Finance and Risk Committee (AFRC) meets at least seven times a year. The primary role of the committee is to assist the Board of Directors fulfil its corporate governance responsibilities in overseeing and reviewing Tourism Tasmania’s internal controls, internal audit relationships, contact engagements, risk management and financial reporting. The committee comprises three board members. Attending the AFRC on request are the Auditor General, the Deputy Secretary DEDTA, the Director Operations and Planning, the Business Services Coordinator, the Business Services officer and the internal auditors.

Our Staff

As at 30 June 2013, Tourism had 54.84 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees with a head count of 68. The FTE count was made up of 49 (with a FTE of 35.84) females and 19 (with a FTE of 19.0) males.

Contracts and Consultants

Table 1: Contracts with a value of $50,000 or over (excluding GST) and excluding consultancy

NAME OF CONTRACTOR	LOCATION OF CONTRACTOR	DESCRIPTION OF CONTRACT	PERIOD OF CONTRACT	TOTAL VALUE OF CONTRACT
Jimjam Ideas	New South Wales	Lead Creative Agency	2012-17	$2,295,830
Roy Morgan	Victoria	Tasmania Visitor information Survey	2013-2019	$1,200,000
Vivid Marketing Services	Hong Kong	Asia marketing servicing	2013-2017	$1,750,000
Last Orders Please PR and marketing	Germany	Germanic Europe marketing services	2013-2015	$252,200

Table 2: Consultancy contracts with a value of $50,000 or over (excluding GST)

NAME OF CONTRACTOR	LOCATION OF CONTRACTOR	DESCRIPTION OF CONTRACT	PERIOD OF CONTRACT	TOTAL VALUE OF CONTRACT
Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil

Right to Information

Tourism Tasmania has a legal obligation to respond to requests for information in accordance with the Right to Information Act 2009, which came into effect on 1 July 2009. The Act provides members of the public with the right to access information held by government and its agencies, with the exception of information deemed by the Act to be exempt.

In 2012-13, Tourism Tasmania did not receive any requests for information.

Board of Directors Attendance 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013

Board	Current Term	Number of Board Meetings (7 mtgs)	Audit Finance & Risk Committee (5 mtgs)
Simon Currant	20/6/2011 – 19/6/2013 (5th term)	7	n/a
John Fitzgerald*	15/1/13 – Till end of appointment (new CEO)	3	n/a
Grant Hunt	1/6/2011 to 31/5/2014 (1st term)	7	n/a
Mark Kelleher	21/8/09 to 20/8/12 (1st term)	6	n/a
Dallas Newton#	2/3/2012 to 1/3/2015 (1st term)	6	4
Kimberly Seagram	13/9/2010 to 12/9/2012 (3rd term)	7	n/a
Karen Scott Davie#	2/3/2012 to 1/3/2014 (1st term)	6	4
Brett Torossi	30/8/2010 to 29/8/2013 (1st term)	7	5

*John Fitzgerald is the new Chief Executive Officer and his representation on the Board is for the term of his appointment.

No longer serving on the Tourism Tasmania Board Directors

Tony Mayell

CEO - Term expired on his resignation on 9/11/12

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