Live from the ARTN conference in Roma Queensland and just before I jumped on stage to deliver the opening keynote for the Australian Regional Tourism Network’s national conference, I caught up with ABC Far North’s Kier Shorey to look at the Future of Australia’s Regional Tourism .

The window between a signal arriving and it demanding a response is shortening. The Future of Australia’s Regional Tourism / ABC FNQ is already shaping strategy conversations in forward-looking organisations. Treating it as a future concern rather than a present one builds a preparedness gap that will have to be closed under pressure.

The most important question is not whether The Future of Australia’s Regional Tourism / ABC FNQ will matter, but how quickly it will matter in your specific context. Leaders benefit most from mapping the ripple effects early — not just the direct impact but the second and third-order consequences that arrive later and hit harder. That is the practical work of foresight.