Blue Mountains. School wins tourism award

The Leura-based, Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School, won the coveted national award in the Tourism Education and Training category, at the Qantas Australian Tourism Awards, in Hobart, defeating an impressive array of finalists including Griffith University, Queensland and the University of South Australia. Blue Mountains Lithgow and Oberon Tourism Limited (BMLOT) chairman, Randall Walker, congratulated the school for its success and its economic contribution to the greater region. He said international and domestic students and their visiting families and friends would inject more than $3 million annually into the local economy.