Proudly supported by Hospitality Tasmania’s Women in Leadership Program
2025 WITH Tas Industry Leaders Breakfast
A morning of inspiration, insights and shared stories
When: Thursday 16 October, 2025
Time: 6.45 am – 8.30 am
Where: Wrest Point Hobart – Boardwalk Gallery, 410 Sandy Bay Rd, Sandy Bay TAS 7005
Let’s meet the speakers:
Tory Ross – Director Tourism Experience & Visitor Services, Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Services
Tory has gained tourism industry experience through roles in both the private sector and Tasmanian Government. This includes positions in the senior management teams of Tourism Tasmania, The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, and more recently as Director of Tourism Experience & Visitor Services with the Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service (PWS).
While Tory left the island for a number of years, living and working in Melbourne and the UK, she is a passionate Tasmanian with a focus on developing productive partnerships that contribute to developing the tourism industry and ultimately enhance the experience of visitors to our state.
Tory also holds a Graduate Diploma in Australian Tourism Marketing from Monash University.
Curly Haslam – Coates GC | Wine Educator and Owner, Vintage Tasmania
urly Haslam-Coates believes that life is better with bubbles.
Curly has worked in high-end hospitality and wine retail in the UK since the mid-90’s. In 2008 she spent five days in Tasmania as part of her Vintners Bursary Prize, awarded for her Wine & Spirit Education Trust Level 3 results, and those five days changed the trajectory of her life forever.
By 2010, she had finished her WSET Diploma and set her sights on a return to Tassie, where she now teaches the WSET qualifications to fellow Tasmanians. Curly is a sparkling wine tragic, a wine writer for The Wine Front, founder of The Whole Bunch Collective, a passionate advocate for childhood food, culture and nutrition education and an enthusiastic support of local food and farming across Tasmania.
This dizzying array of projects all falls under the umbrella of Vintage Tasmania, but Curly always has an eye open for new projects that support equality and equity within the wine and food industries.
Allison Horswill | State Manager Tasmania, Qantas | Chair, Enabled Network, Qantas Group
Allison Horswill is the State Manager for Qantas in Tasmania, Chair of the Qantas Group’s Enabled Network, and someone who deeply appreciates a great martini. She is also a local business owner, mother of three teenage sons, a person with disability, and a director of the Tourism Industry Council of Tasmania.
With a career spanning agriculture, international trade, market access, government, and aviation, Allison brings both personal insight and commercial acumen to her current work in championing a more sustainable and accessible tourism industry. She is known for fostering open conversations, challenging assumptions, and driving meaningful change – no matter the industry.
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We acknowledge the Tasmanian Aboriginal people and their enduring custodianship of lutruwita (Tasmania). We honour the uninterrupted care, protection and belonging to these islands, skies and waterways, before the invasion and colonisation of European settlement. We acknowledge the Aboriginal people who continue to care for this country today. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present. We honour their stories, songs, art, and culture, and their aspirations for the future of their people and these lands.