Tag Archives: Island

Ben Southall - Winner of ‘The Best Job in the World’

By admin | May 6, 2009

Congratulations to Ben Southall who has just been announced as the winner of ‘The Best Job in the World’.
Incredibly, Ben was selected from an initial pool of 34,000 candidates.
Tourism QLD spent almost 4 months and $1.7 million in promoting and selecting the appropriate candidate.
This is Ben’s official biography:
According to Ben Southall from Southern England: “The [...]

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Best Job in the World - 14 Days to GO!!

By admin | April 22, 2009

With 14 Days to go, things are hotting up with Tourism QLD’s global search (marketing campaign) to find the perfect  applicant for the “Best Job in the World”.
What merely started as a “pie in the sky” concept, has snowballed into one of the most innovative employment and marketing campaigns ever implemented. It is estimated that [...]

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Island Dream Caretaker Job - All the latest news

By admin | March 27, 2009

Wow, if you have been following this story, this is getting interesting. Here is a summary of recent news snippets from around the traps:
March 11 - Race around the world “Student goes global for dream reef job”. News.com.au
March 17 - One applicant already promotes the Australian Environment through books such as “Karma SEAtra - Secrets [...]

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Top 50 - Island Dream Caretaker Job

By admin | March 6, 2009

UPDATE - We have a Top 50.
Tourism QLD have been able to trawl through their initial 34,648 applicants (hmmm…do you think they looked at every applicant??) to reach a shortlist of the Top 50 for the Island Dream Caretaker Job.
From this Top 50, it appears that 10 applicants will be selected, with the addition of [...]

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34,648 apply for Great Barrier Reef “Island Dream Job”

By admin | February 25, 2009

Over 34,000 applicants from 200 countries have applied for what has been described as “The Best Job in the World”.
In January, Tourism Queensland launched a world-wide marketing campaign to find one suitable person to act as Caretaker for 6 months on the Great Barrier Reef’s Hamilton Island.
The duties include keeping a daily blog and travelling [...]

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