Review

These Awards were primarily established to showcase regional Australian destinations and tourism businesses, many of which have few or no other avenues to gain national recognition. That is despite one in every three Australians, or 9.45 million people, living in regional and rural areas.

The Awards and their associate program have been successful in this regard, with more than 500 places being promoted to a national audience to date.

After having to cancel the Awards dinner and associated Art of Attraction Tourism Summit in March 2024 due to lack of registrations, we undertook an extended review to identify and analyse all options moving forward.

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The Review's KEY FINDINGS were:
* Sponsorship remains extremely difficult to secure with the fallout from the pandemic continuing to impact the economy and therefore business operations.
* The majority of potential sponsors are looking for opportunities to meet face-to-face with prospective customers.
* Most nominees could not state with confidence that they could attend any future face-to-face event.
* The majority of organisations that are willing to commit to attending a future national Awards dinner would only send one representative.
* Costs of running the Awards have increased by 62 percent since 2020.
* All possible actions to minimise costs in running the Awards without affecting the credibility and professionalism of the programs have been taken.
* Nominees were unlikely to pay the significantly higher entry fees that would be necessary to cover the costs of running the Awards programs if sponsorship cannot be secured.

Given the above, the Australian Street Art Awards will not be held in 2025.

Awards Directors Liz Rivers and Kim Morgan said they would like to extend a special thanks to all those who have supported the Awards to date, with special gratitude to both the volunteer judges and our long-time marketing sponsor Portable Creations.