Kristy Bailey is both the Director of Swan River Seaplanes and the Managing Director of One Eighty Marketing, where she has worked with various clients from the tourism industry. Ms Bailey has also contributed to meaningful and sustainable tourism developments in Western Australia as a Board Director on the Tourism Council of Western Australia, where she served from 2017 to May 2024. She holds a Master of Marketing and has previously been a Tourism Lecturer at Challenger Institute of Technology.
Ms Bailey has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of strategic marketing, communications and PR within the tourism sector. Through this experience she has worked with all aspects of the tourism industry, including retail and wholesale travel companies, conference and cruise operators and luxury resorts.