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The launch of a new scholarship program by QCM (Queensland Club Management) Group in partnership with CTA this month will see students study, tour and work across a number of venues for an unique and exciting learning experience.
The QCM (Queensland Club Management) Group launched a scholarship program in partnership with CTA [...]
New State Government Regulations Will you be ready on January 1, 2012? Will you have formally committed to a manual tasks risk management program?
Not sure what this means?
By Oskar Garcia, AP Digital, http://twitter.com/oskargarcia
Casino industry seeking new online poker bill
The commercial casino industry wants Congress to skip proposals already on the table for regulating the estimated $6 billion online poker industry and pass new legislation that would let states decide whether to allow online [...]
By Stephanie Peatling, The Age
There is now one poker machine for every 108 people in Australia, putting the nation in the top 10 of international gambling hotspots alongside Monaco and some Caribbean islands.
Australia also has the seventh-highest total number of gaming machines, with 200,057 in pubs and clubs, industry [...]
By AAP, The Age
Supporters of the federal government’s poker machine reforms have seized on a new study showing almost three-quarters of drug crime is linked to gambling debts.
This month Jono was invited to present the latest successful Cert III Hospitality trainees at The Waves in Bundaberg.
GM Brendan Royall and Garry Black were very proud to see eight of their staff collect their certificates and two trainees were awarded, as most improved performer and outstanding achiever. Congratulations to all involved, and once [...]
Over the past few months, our intrepid Diploma students have ventured to Brisbane and Sydney as part of their Central Qld Management Development Program learning experiences.
Next month they are off to Vegas!
CTA has access to prepared staff trained in the basics and ready for work experience at your venue.
Our pre-employment courses have been so successful that we now run them right across SEQ. CTA train students within a week to get them ready for the hospitality workforce, then offer them to venues for work experience. What’s [...]
Finance, Marketing, and Gaming – three key areas of a club business, get this trifecta right and you are on your way to success!
Media Release – 20 September 2011
Queensland clubs have called for better representation of the facts of Queensland’s gaming industry after continued reports that poker machine players can lose in excess of $1,200 per hour.
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