Peter Laurance AO

Peter Laurance AO, Director of Tourism Australia
Director
Peter Laurance AO is a former owner and developer of major tourism attractions on the Gold Coast, including Warner Brothers Movie World, Sea World, and Daydream Island in the Whitsundays and was chairman of the Queensland Tourist and Travel Corporation.
He was inducted as an Officer in the Order of Australia in 1991 for his services to tourism and to disadvantaged youth.
Peter is the current Chairman and Founder of the Pivot Group of Companies. Peter established the first of the Pivot Group of Companies in Perth, Western Australia in 1972, which grew into a publicly-listed corporation in 1984 with offices, property assets and resource projects in most states of Australia. It has been wholly owned by the Laurance family since it privatised the Group in 1990.