While the major incentives of the program, including a cash payment of up to $1500 and a bonus $250 travel voucher if you travel more than 100km to take the job, aren’t available until July 1, you can already apply for eligible jobs.
Eligible regions range from “north of Mackay, to the west of Toowoomba”, offering even more opportunities for positions to be filled in outback Queensland.
Tourism Tropical North Queensland will also provide $200 Cairns holiday vouchers to ensure its workers “not just work hard, but play hard”.
Current open vacancies which can benefit from the program include:
- Venue managers, bartenders and bar staff
- Chefs, cooks and kitchenhands
- Tour guides and deckhands
- Hotel resort and restaurant wait staff
The program comes after Far North Queensland’s tourism sector reported a bumper school holiday period.
More than 70,000 people flew into Cairns, while Port Douglas hotels hit 90 per cent capacity over the Easter long weekend.
The bounceback in demand left thousands of unfilled positions, with 9News reporting last night one-in-six Queensland jobs was tourism-related before the pandemic.
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