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Reservations manager.

This is a Full time job

• Five-star hotel in CBD location on the Cairns waterfront.
• Duty meals provided in fully staffed and maintained staff canteen.
• Other Staff discounts, offers and more!

Group Reservations Agent

• Global brand with opportunity for growth and progression
• Accommodation benefits, FB discounts, staff meals, laundered uniform and more!
• Competitive salary and incentive scheme

This is a Part time job

This is a Casual/Vacation job

Reservations Officer

• Great team environment
• Indoors, inner city location
• Enjoyble and rewarding position

Cabin Crew SAAB 340 - Cairns

OFFSHORE DECKHAND - WITH COXSWAIN

• Use your Coxswains NC1 everyday on the Great Barrier Reef
• Work in a small team
• Excellent discounts on all products for you and your family

Pontoon Caretaker

• Enjoy Quicksilver products at heavily discounted rates
• Work with one of Australia's largest Tourism Operators
• Be a part of making wonderful memories

Dynamic driver guide for early morning hot air balloon tours

Reservations.

• Fun relaxed work environment
• Respected Cairns Tourism Operator

Tour Guide North Queensland

This is a Contract/Temp job

Reservations/Ground Crew

Travel Executive

• Join a friendly, professional, supportive team environment.
• Career growth in a progressive & expanding Australian company.
• The opportunity to work and travel in amazing destinations.

Touring Guide

• Unique Outback Experience in Australia's most iconic landmark
• Career Growth opportunities, positive and collaborative environment.
• Discounted accommodation, on-shift meals, staff pool, gym, and Residents Club

Product Development Executive

Tours and activities assistant, sales & event co-ordinator, guest service agent- live on island, front office guest service.

• Tranquillity, Ambience and Boutique Luxury
• Enthusiast & Personalised Service
• Experience and Memories

Reservations superstar

Operations assistant.

• Safe, Fun and Engaging Environment With Transparency From Management
• Strong and Practical Work-Life Balance With Opportunity Of Growth
• Discounts on Tourism Products

Guest Service Agent

• Flexible hours and great rates 20+ hours per week
• Awesome team
• Would ideally suit a student

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Unlocking opportunities. Empowering abilities.

Inclusion is everyone’s business. Imagine the possibilities when paradise, passion, and opportunity collide. Tourism Taster Cairns aims to break down barriers, enable sustainable job creation, and connect the tourism industry with people who are ready to work.

It can be hard to decide on the right career path from just a job description. With Tourism Taster, you can discover your dream future by hands-on job tasting a variety of industries.

Our expert employment coordinator links job seekers with disability to inclusive and accessible tourism businesses.

Your work experience journey will open a tropical gateway of discovery into the tourism industry and prepare you for paid employment.

Where will you begin your career in the tropical Cairns tourism industry?

Traverse the tropical coastland in style.

Customer and guest services

Be the welcoming smile that greets holidaymakers.

Hospitality and accommodation

Start your day at indulgent spas and alfresco restaurants.

Food and beverage

Relish in food and wine trails and the best coffee in the country.

Housekeeping and cleaning

Reach for the stars at a high-rise luxury resort.

Immerse yourself in festivals of wonder.

Tours and guides

Discover and share endless fascinating experiences.

Information centres

Share your passion and inspire visitors to explore local wonders.

Tourism Taster connects Cairns tourism businesses to employees with disability. We work with you to break down barriers around hiring people with disability and build an accessible and inclusive business.

With one in five people living with a disability, this is a business opportunity you can’t afford to miss. Let’s shape accessible futures together. Embark on the ultimate business opportunity and become a central hub of responsible and sustainable tourism.

Our expert employment coordinator will take the time to understand your business values, culture, and challenges. We then sit with you to craft a work experience vacancy opportunity that speaks to the skills, experience, and talent your business calls for.

We take the stress of advertising and vetting resumes off your hands. We market your business to job seekers with disability, as well as local Disability Employment Services (DES) providers, to find you passionate candidates with a learning mindset.

Our support doesn’t end there. Through the Tourism Taster program, you can access free disability awareness training and ongoing on-the-job support.

Our expert employment coordinator educates businesses on:

• the benefits of employing people with a disability
• how to attract people with a disability
• the resources and funding available to make any necessary adjustments to the work environment
• assessing a workplace as being ‘disability ready’ with free disability awareness initiatives and training
• contact information for Disability Employment Services (DES) providers with suitable candidates in your local area.

DES PROVIDER

Tourism Taster helps job seekers with disability get their first foot in the door. We organise work experiences with inclusive and accessible workplaces using a hands-on approach.

Our expert employment coordinator will work with you and your job seeker to arrange “job tasting” opportunities. These work experiences will be back-dropped by the the beautiful Cairns tourism industry.

Here, your job seeker will experience first-hand what a career in the tourism industry is like. They can test out their hand at a new career, learn exciting new skills, and discover if this might just be where their passion lies.

We strive to set your job seeker up for success and place them in an environment where they can thrive and be their best. All businesses we work with receive free disability awareness training and education on reasonable adjustments.

If the work experience goes well and the job seeker is offered paid employment, then congratulations! We will advise you of all the details so you can set them up with what they need for a successful placement.

Cairns Jobs

Cairns tourism employment.

Being such a popular tourist destination, a significant proportion of employment opportunities in Cairns are in the tourism industry. Locals’ knowledge of Cairns is highly valued by the region’s visitors, and travel agencies, tour desks and accommodation properties rely on the friendliness and approachable nature of Cairns residents.

Cairns residents interested in a tourism job might wish to pursue the following popular employment options:

• Tour guide (multi-lingual tour guides, especially Japanese and German, are particularly sought-after)
• Travel agent reservations
• Car rental reservations
• Resort/hotel management
• Hotel receptionist
• Dive instructor
• Dive boat crew
• Helicopter flight assistant
• Sales & marketing ...and many, many more.

Employment in tourism provides a wealth of useful skills and knowledge. Customer service frequently plays a role in tourism jobs, and local knowledge amassed from one position will help with the next.

Finding and applying for a tourism job

When seeking a job in tourism, your industry contacts will be your best starting point. Consider joining organisations such as the Cairns Tourism Association, Cairns Chamber of Commerce and the Cairns Business Women’s Club, or volunteer at the Tourism Tropical North Queensland (TTNQ) visitor information centre on the Cairns Esplanade.

A prospective employer will be primarily seeking a friendly, likeable, approachable person. Local knowledge is important, but not as important as a genuine enthusiasm to learn more about Tropical North Queensland and convey its attractions to visitors. An acute ability to identify market trends and develop novel marketing concepts will be appreciated for sales & marketing positions.

To contact an employment agency specialising in the Cairns tourism industry, browse our employment agencies page.

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Coronavirus

Coronavirus 9,000 tourism jobs lost in Cairns as pandemic continues to cripple once-thriving industry

Nine thousand tourism jobs – more than half of the local industry's workforce – have been lost in Far North Queensland since the pandemic began, according to the region's peak body.

Key points:

• The Far North Queensland tourism industry used to be worth $2.5 billion a year
• A business owner says staff shortages led to "big losses" in January
• The restaurateur says with 90 per cent of people double-jabbed, vaccine mandates should be relaxed

It has been a dire two years for the tropical city of Cairns – known as the home of the Great Barrier Reef and world-heritage listed rainforests – with southern lockdowns and international border closures smashing an industry once worth $2.5 billion annually.

Tourism Tropical North Queensland chief executive Mark Olsen said the region's tourism industry employed 15,750 full and part-time staff before the pandemic began.

But with the loss of the federal government's JobKeeper program, many workers had been forced to leave the industry for good.

"Without international visitation, we've lost about 9,000 staff over the last 22 months," Mr Olsen said.

"At first it was the frontline staff — those on the part-time and casual roles, but as the pandemic extended on, we started losing highly skilled staff.

"Even in the last few weeks, we've seen businesses have to stand down some of their most senior staff because the cash flow is so tight.

"We've lost a lot of skill and experience that has guided the region, which has been one of the most successful tourism destinations, over the last 30 years."

Quarantine-free international travel for the fully-vaccinated into Queensland  came into effect on Saturday for the first time since the spread of COVID-19 led to the closure of Australia's border almost two years ago.

But an influx of international tourists could be some time away.

The federal government is limiting overseas arrivals mainly to returning Australian residents, working visa holidays and international students.

'Big losses' despite open border

Cairns restaurateur Craig Squire has been serving up modern Australian cuisine since 1994.

Normally his waterfront restaurant would operate seven days a week, but he has been forced to cut back due to a lack of staff, many of whom are waiting on COVID-19 test results.

He said the normally busy Christmas holiday period had been anything but.

"The first week of January, we had five staff out waiting on test results, so that really put a dampener on what would have been a quite a successful trading week," Mr Squire said.

"We had to close for several days because we just didn't have enough staff to operate the business.

"It's been a terrible January — there's big losses."

Mr Squire said one of the biggest impediments to his business had been the mandating of vaccination for those dining in restaurants.

"The concept that the unvaccinated can't go to restaurants and cafes but can go to gyms and hairdressers and food courts, even licensed food courts, it just doesn't stick," he said.

"It basically started as a coercive measure to get more people vaccinated — we're at 90 per cent fully vaccinated in Cairns now so surely we can let go of that.

"It's not stopping the spread of COVID."

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