Linda is Managing Director of regional tourism and events agency, Tilma Group. She is a regional tourism strategist and practitioner boasting a suite of regional tourism and event expertise with LGAs and RTOs across Australia in regional tourism and event development, tourism strategy, destination marketing, regional branding, and event delivery. Linda is also the founder of Australian Centre of Regional Events, a national body that builds the capacity of event committees to run their events more efficiently and sustainably.
Linda has a strong tourism and events background, coupled with intuitive skills in community and regional development, and has worked on a range of regional tourism and events projects such as regional event strategies and committee capacity building, destination and event marketing planning and campaigns, destination branding, regional tourism strategic planning and development, and industry training and mentoring.
Well known for her regional passion and ability to harness the symbiotic relationship between tourism and events for destinations, Linda has an intimate understanding of regional Australia and an innate ability to connect with regional communities that has been a standout over the past fifteen years of her career in regional tourism and events.