Department of Creative Industries, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport

The Department of Creative Industries, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport (DCITHS) is focused on bringing vibrancy to NSW by growing our creative industries and workforces, driving strong visitor and night-time economies, ensuring a responsible hospitality sector, and putting arts, culture and sport at the heart of our communities. We are delivering: • NSW’s Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy: Creative Communities – championing arts and culture throughout the state. Expanding support for the broader creative industries including contemporary music, screen and digital games, and strengthening the creative sectors in regional NSW and Western Sydney. • Ongoing Vibrancy Regulatory Reforms – creating an environment that reduces red tape and encourages operators within the creative industries and night-time economy sectors to launch and grow. • 24-Hour Economy Strategy – a new expanded strategy to grow night-time economies in major centres across NSW. • Hospitality and Racing Strategy 2025 – supporting a dynamic and responsible liquor, gaming and racing environment. • NSW Screen and Digital Games Strategy – a 3-year plan to provide stability and sustainability within the NSW screen and digital games sectors, while supporting the growth of international markets. • Contemporary Music Strategy – a 10-year strategy to drive the development of a thriving and globally competitive contemporary music industry. • NSW Visitor Economy Strategy – supporting the sector to make NSW the premier visitor economy of the Asia Pacific. • Participation in Sport and Active Recreation – supporting all individuals, communities and organisations across NSW to enjoy and realise the benefits of participating in sport and active recreation and supporting high performance sport.