Agency:
Department of Tourism
Agency Number:
Start Date:
01 Jan 1977
End Date:
17 Jul 1989
Description:
Assist travellers, act as a travel agent, develop the tourist industry and promote and publicise Tasmania. The Department continued largely unchanged, although it was now at the discretion of the Public Service Board whether positions in the Department were classified as contract or permanent. The experiment with a statuatiry authority running the Department was abandoned and the Director of Tourism exercised full executive control. He continued to serve on the Tourist Accommodation Loans Committee. (The Loans Committee advises the Minister on applications for loans or loan guarantees from developers of tourist resorts.) The Department continued the Tourist Bureau established in Hobart, Launceston, Burnie, Devonport, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. New branches were opened in Canberra in 1978, and Perth in 1980. A branch opened in Singapore in 1985 but closed the following year, when a branch opened in Japan. Bureaux in New Zealand and America followed in 1988. In July 1989, as part of a general re-organisation of the State Service, the Department of Tourism was amalgamated with the Department of Sport and Recreation.~
Legislation Administered:
Defacement of Property Act 1898, Tourism Act 1977
Legislation Creating:
Tourism Act 1977 (No. 15/1977) (Brought into operation by Statutory Rule 1977 No. 113)
Functions Performed:
Tourism
Controlling Agencies:
| Office of the Minister for Tourism (TA422) | 01 Jan 1942 |
Previous Agencies:
| Department of Tourism and Immigration (TA333) | 01 Jan 1971 | 31 Dec 1977 |
| Tourism Development Authority (TA334) | 01 Jan 1971 | 31 Dec 1977 |
| Tourism Advisory Committee (TA348) | 01 Jan 1977 |
Related Agencies:
| Tourism Advisory Committee (TA348) | 01 Jan 1977 |
Subsequent Agencies:
| Department of Tourism, Sport and Recreation (TA895) | 17 Jul 1989 | 27 Mar 1996 |
Series Created By Agency:
| AA378 Publications issued to Promote Tourism. | 01 Jan 1903 | 31 Dec 1990 |
| AB473 Printed Travel Brochures collected Into Scrapbooks. | 01 Jan 1930 | 31 Dec 1980 |
| AG596 Senior Staff Files | 25 Jun 1936 | 10 Jan 1990 |
| AB520 Burnie Office - Summary of Receipts and Remittances. | 01 Nov 1937 | 31 Mar 1978 |
| AA494 General Correspondence. | 01 Jan 1938 | 31 Dec 1991 |
| AA375 Photographs, Glass Plate Negatives, Steroscopic Slides and Negatives used by Tourism Agencies to Publicise Tasmania. | 01 Jan 1940 | 31 Dec 1990 |
| AA552 Loans Files - Unregistered. | 01 Jan 1949 | 31 Dec 1979 |
| AA677 Tasmanian Travelways. | 01 Jan 1962 | 31 Dec 1983 |
| AA676 Copies of Surveys and Reports Commissioned, Undertaken by Various Agencies. | 01 Jan 1968 | 31 Dec 1984 |
| AA772 Photographic Register of Advertising Signs Considered under the Defacement of Property Act 1898. | 18 Sep 1968 | 16 Jul 1985 |
| AC421 Films and Videos relating to Tasmania Acquired by the Agency. | 01 Jan 1970 | 31 Dec 2002 |
| AA680 Speeches by L. Butler and J.B.G. Hulton at Various Functions. | 01 Jan 1971 | 31 Dec 1980 |
| AC596 Abolished Position Files. | 01 Jan 1971 | 31 Dec 1994 |
| AA667 "Tasbureau News". | 01 Jan 1973 | 31 Dec 1981 |
| AC422 Film & Video Commercials Produced for the Agency by Outside Producers. | 01 Jan 1977 | 31 Dec 1994 |
| AB974 Minutes of Finance Advisory Committee. | 01 Jul 1977 | 30 Nov 1985 |
| AB360 Burnie Office - "Tasmania Today: an Audio-Visual Sequence". | 01 Jan 1978 | 31 Dec 1978 |
| AC420 Promotional Films & Videos and Footage Produced for the Agency by Outside Producers | 01 Jan 1978 | 05 Aug 2002 |
| AC404 Index Cards to General Correspondence Filing System. | 01 Jan 1980 | 31 Dec 1980 |
| AC405 Registration Cards to General Correspondence Filing System. | 01 Jan 1980 | 31 Dec 1980 |
| AC406 Registration Cards for Tourism Grants. | 01 Jan 1980 | 31 Dec 1980 |
| AC407 Registration Cards of "a" Files. | 01 Jan 1980 | 31 Dec 1980 |
| AD957 Photographs used to Promote Tourism in Tasmania (registered). | 01 Jan 1980 | 31 Dec 1995 |
| AD958 Digital Images used to Promote Tourism in Tasmania (registered). | 01 Jan 1983 | 31 Dec 1995 |
| AD959 Index to Images used to Promote Tourism in Tasmania. | 01 Jan 1983 | 31 Dec 1995 |
| AD968 Negatives used to Promote Tourism in Tasmania (1) | 01 Jan 1983 | 31 Dec 1995 |
| AC419 Videos Produced in-House by the Agency. | 01 Jan 1984 | 31 Dec 2000 |