Tourism Queensland is seriously committed to being the travel gateway to Queensland.
Our goal is to deliver the best visitor experience, and provide the most authoritative information on Queensland destinations, experiences, accommodation and cultural events.
This means ensuring our website users are always surprised and excited about our great products. It also means listening to your feedback and continually improving our service.
Tourism Queensland's flagship website Queensland Holidays regularly wins awards, as do our special campaigns like Where Else But Queensland. These accolades reflect our commitment to outstanding service and delivering a high quality visitor experience.
We thought we'd share some of these awards with you and would like to say thank you for your ongoing feedback and support.
QueenslandHolidays.com.au and Eye on Q have been recognised in the 2008 Web Marketing Association Awards. Eye on Q, which features user-submitted photography as well as Tourism Queensland imagery and video footage was awarded Outstanding Website recognising the work as above and beyond the standard of excellence. The QueenslandHolidays.com.au site was recognised as an Outstanding Website by scoring strongly in the categories of design, innovation, content and copywriting and technology.
In 2007, the Where Else But Queensland and Queensland Holidays sites were selected for several WebAwards from more than 2400 nominations. We were recognised alongside web-presences such as Disney, Vegas, Hong Kong Tourism and Canada.
The WebAwards is the premier global website award competition that identifies the best websites across 96 industries, while setting the standard of excellence for all website development.
The Where Else But Queensland campaign won the award for the Multimedia and Interactive category at this year's AMI Awards for Marketing Excellence. The campaign impressed judges with its successful integration of online and offline media to generate traffic, and for engaging visitors on many levels.
The prestigious AMI Awards are presented to organisations and marketers who have achieved extraordinary success from innovative and effective marketing practices. They are the toughest marketing awards to enter and the toughest to win.
During the period October - December 2007, Queensland Holidays was ranked 3rd in the top ten of all Australian websites in the Government - Queensland category. The site was a Hitwise Top 10 Award winner for the entire year of 2007 - that's for the quarters ending January - March, April - June, and again for July - September and October - December 2007.
The Hitwise Top 10 Awards recognise websites from over 160 industry categories that are leaders in their field.
Tourism Queensland was runner-up in July's Creative Showcase Awards. During the three months from February - April 2007, the Where Else But Queensland site registered more than 256,200 visits, reflecting the depth and innovation of a highly-successful campaign.
The Internet Advertising Bureau Australia's Creative Showcase Awards celebrate cutting-edge creativity and innovation within the online advertising sector.
Queensland Holidays won a Silver Award in this year's W3 Awards in the Tourism category.
The W3 Awards honour superior creativity on the web and recognises the individuals behind award winning web sites, web advertising and web video.
The Experience Queensland campaign garnered an award from the Web Marketing Association for Best Travel Rich Media Online Campaign.
The Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Awards honour excellence in online advertising, recognising the individuals and organizations responsible, and showcasing award winning advertising and promotion.
For regular updates on Tourism Queensland, visit our media releases page.