Talking Tourism Episode #35: COVID 19 Specials - Daniel Leesong and Kim Seagram AM talk Tourism and Business Resilience

Two of Tasmania's leading tourism and hospitality operators and industry leaders share their personal perspectives on the Covid-19 crisis, and the practical steps they are undertaking in their own businesses to weather the storm.

Daniel Leesong is Chair of Tourism Industry Council Tasmania, and Managing Director of Coal River Farm, a tourism and manufacturing business based out of Cambridge. Daniel is one of Tasmania's leading tourism identities, with twenty years experience in the industry as an executive, advocacy, and now operator level.

Kim Seagram AM is a co-owner of iconic Launceston dining institutions, Stillwater and Black Cow Bistro. Kim and her team's latest venture, Stillwater Seven, was named Tasmania's best new tourism development for 2019, and won Silver in the 2019 Qantas Australian Tourism Awards for best new tourism development in Australia. Kim is a long-standing leader of the Northern Tasmanian tourism industry, a former director of Tourism Tasmania, and regarded as the first lady of Tasmanian hospitality.