Natassia Wheeler

Tash has worked with passion and genuine determination for the past 17 years in Queensland’s tourism industry. Tash has successfully headed up two Regional Tourism Organisations (RTOs), worked at Tourism and Events Queensland and consulted to a number of businesses throughout Queensland.

Tash is a proven highly successful hands-on team leader with a genuine understanding of stakeholder needs. Tash knows how to be a voice for Tourism, she led the Whitsundays tourism industry through many crisis from cyclones, marine incidents and then most recently COVID 19, these crisis provided an opportunity to show her personal resilience and ability to work with key stakeholders including government to achieve benchmark results for the region.

Tash has a strong and measured successful background in operational management, marketing, events, financial management, publicity, crisis communications, human resources and stakeholder management. It is her approachable and natural leadership style that ensures an open and consultative approach.

Tash is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Moreton Bay Region Industry & Tourism, is a Board Director at Queensland Tourism Industry Council and sits on the Regional Development Australia Committee for the Moreton Bay.

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