June 2025 Newsletter
YTNSW Ball 2025
Have you booked yet for the industry networking event of the year, on Thursday26June 2025? Limited places left!
BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW!Â
Cruising Sydney Harbour in a glass-walled boat with iconic views
With a glitzy Casino Royale theme
Drinks flowing
Delicious food
4 hours of fun from 6PM to 10PM
Awesome prizes up for grabs too, spruiked by our legendary MC, Toby LLewellyn!
MEMBERS: Individual $209; Table (of 10) $199 p.p. ($1,990 per table – grab your colleagues/mates)
NON-MEMBERS: Individual $229; Table (of 10) $219 p.p. ($2,190 per table); Combo package – ticket + annual membership of YTNSW $249 (SAVE UP TO $149!)
BOOK HERE NOW! Cheers to our Gold Sponsor, Hero!
Tourism Australia/BYTAP/ATEC Scholarship Winner
YTNSW member LACo proudly announces that one of their team members, Charles Kinzbrunner from Drifter, is the lucky winner of the annual Tourism Australia/BYTAP/ATEC Youth Sector ELITE Scholarship! As part of the prize, LACo will receive a 1-year ATEC membership, and Charles will participate in the ATEC ELITE program, including mentoring by Kristy Malapa, Industry Relations Manager and youth sector specialist at Tourism Australia. Charles will also attend ATEC Meeting Place taking place in Perth in October 2025 including participation fees, flights and accommodation! Find out more here.
Congratulations also go to the LACo crew for officially opening Little Drifter Canberra on 5 June 2025 – fantastic to have such high-quality accommodation for independent travellers in our nation’s glorious capital!
Member spotlight
Congratulations to YTNSW Committee member, Justin Steele, for winning gold in the 2025 NSW Top Tour Guide Awards (delivered by NSW Tourism Association in partnership with Tour Guides Australia, Outdoors NSW & ACT and Journey Beyond Cruise Sydney) – best of luck in the national awards too!
Meanwhile, YTNSW member Destination NSW (DNSW) will run an online workshop on 26 June 2025 from 10am to 3pm (the day of the YTNSW ball) to develop operators’ skills in creating, tailoring and delivering great, bookable visitor experiences – register here.
Also, if any youth tourism organisations can help with recruiting British, French, Korean or Japanese backpackers (including Working Holiday Makers from these two Asian countries) for some important market research commissioned by Tourism Australia, please direct them to the QR code on this poster (and they’ll get a $100 voucher for their participation if selected).
To get further information on anything to do with YTNSW, don’t hesitate to get in touch – contact@youthtourismnsw.org.au
Thanks for your support and contribution to growing the youth tourism industry in New South Wales & the ACT. We would also like to give a special thanks to Allsopp Bunting Insurance for their ongoing support of YTNSW and the industry and to Taphouse Sydney – our awesome venue sponsor!