The committee recommended that Redlands Tourism merge with the council's current tourism services under a new, independent organisation with external tourism experts who would actively seek their own funding to become less financially reliant on the council and end the current system of fractured funding and duplication of websites, brochures and phone numbers.

Chief Executive Officer of Story Bridge Adventure Climb and local resident, Paul Lewin, chaired the advisory committee and said the model it proposed had received unanimous support across the community.

"We consulted with the [Redland] Chamber of Commerce and all its member businesses, everyone from banks and retailers to car rentals as well as Brisbane Marketing and Tourism Queensland and we had 100 per cent backing for the design," Mr Lewin said.

"So to have a handful of councillors vote against it with no knowledge of tourism is total nonsense, and I note that no councillors proposed an alternate model, which means the taskforce is dissolved, the report is shelved and there is nowhere constructive to go forward from here."

Redland City Mayor Melva Hobson and Councillor for Cleveland and North Stradbroke Island Craig Ogilvie were also on the advisory board and voted for the proposed new structure with councillors Wendy Boglary (Div 1), Kathy Reimers (Div 8) and Debra Henry (Div 3).

"I'm absolutely disgusted by the outcome of this vote, especially when four of the six councillors who voted against it didn't even attend the workshops, and those of you who voted to set up the taskforce in the first place clearly recognised there was a problem, but are now reverting back to a broken, status quo arrangement," Cr Ogilvie said.

In May 2008, all sitting councillors voted to form the taskforce, except Cr Murray Elliott, who was absent, and former councillor Peter Dowling, who voted against. Cr John Burns was not a councillor at the time.