Tourism
April 22, 2007
Seeing the breadth and passion of grassroots action groups in North America, the UK, Ireland and a few here in Oz – all working towards a sustainable future – I am amazed there has been NO news coverage of their […]
April 22, 2007
‘Learn how to get your customers talking about you – and win those repeat visits’ is an approach discussed in the most recent Tourism Tasmania Newsletter. The following seems to make very good sense – it would be great to […]
April 12, 2007
What exactly are we talking about when we refer to ‘cultural heritage’? While researching an update to last year’s Burrup Peninsula story, we came across a fascinating poll hidden on the margins of the Australian Conservation Foundation website. When asked […]
March 27, 2007
NSW town of Gulargambone invigorated by volunteer run visitors centre Like so many towns in the Central Western NSW region, Gulargambone was hit hard by drought and low commodity prices. The banks left the town and businesses closed. When the […]
March 19, 2007
Visit the ‘Stop-illegal-letting’ website if you know about illegal rentals PWF adressed the backpacker industry’s issue of unscrupulous landlords renting out residential properties as illegal hostels in June and July 2005. In 2007 the AHA (Australian Hotels Association) continues tackling […]
March 16, 2007
Territorians aren’t travelling ‘in their patch’ but others are! A report just released by Tourism Research Australia shows that, when compared with the year ending December 2006, the number of Territorians travelling around the NT has fallen 7.3% but there […]
March 15, 2007
Orange’s Woman of the Year launches website for Australian families. When Fiona Rossiter moved her family from Scotland to Orange in NSW 14 years ago, she found being new to a town was a big challenge, especially with young children […]
March 15, 2007
Free event to mark the Elimination of Racism Day & Cultural Diversity week “Quite often ignorance breeds contempt. So if we can share and work together with the arts, it’s about getting to know each other, performing together, working together […]
March 13, 2007
A largely unknown opportunity at a fraction of normal retail price Doug Jacquier, CEO of Community Information Strategies Australia (CISA) has asked PWF to pass on this great opportunity for small and medium organisations, to upgrade their IT capacity for […]
March 12, 2007
Can we learn to get a message ‘out there’ from the Canadian ‘Fostering Sustainable Behavior Listserv’ ….. Is there an Australian equivalent? Only 5 days till Webinar on California’s Flex Your Power Program Friday March 16 2007 is the post […]
March 9, 2007
Will play right around Oz in the 2007 International Comedy Festival Sue Ellson’s Newcomers’ Network Newsletter has just arrived with info about Victoria’s ‘Celebrate our Cultural Diversity Week’ and IL DAGO which could be an amazing night out! On stage […]
March 9, 2007
Environmentally innovative – BP’s Global Choice program lures Visy Very encouraging – wouldn’t it be great to get some more ‘big moves’ from ‘big companies’? Visy will offset the greenhouse emissions from its entire 800 vehicle fleet – around 19,000 […]