FORMER Tourism North East CEO Amber Gardner will shoulder the responsibility of guiding the most significant restructure of Victoria's alpine resorts in decades.
Ms Gardner was, on Friday, announced the inaugural CEO of Alpine Resorts Victoria (ARV).
ARV is the new centralised body set to takeover governance from the current boards at each of Victoria's alpine resorts from October 1.
Ms Gardner is currently CEO of the Mount Hotham Alpine Resort Management Board and has spent the last 16 years of her career in leadership roles within Victoria's alpine and tourism sector, including roles at Mount Buller and Mount Stirling.
She is currently chair of the Ovens Murray Regional Partnership and a member of the regional development advisory committee and Victoria's Economic Restart & Recovery Committee, as well as a director of Outdoors Victoria and of Tourism North East.
ARV board chair, Ali Wastie, said Ms Gardner will, from October 1, "be instrumental in realising the benefits of this reform, bringing a strategic and coordinated approach to planning for the future and responding to the impacts of climate change, supporting the growth and diversification of Victoria's alpine tourism sector".
Ms Gardner said she was delighted to be CEO and looked forward to working with the alpine industry to build the economic resilience of the sector and lead the resorts through their next phase of strategic growth.
"Victoria's alpine resorts are unique nature–based tourism destinations and significant contributors to the state's visitor economy," she said.
