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Mercredi le 12 Novembre, 2003

Ballarat Shines at awards.

3 of the Ballarat region's tourism operators have been awarded at the 2003 Victorian Tourism Awards.

Sovereign Hill (1850's Gold Township recreated living village), Goldfields Holiday Park and Daylesford's Sweet Decadence chocolate shop won awards, despite the industry facing a change of attitude from a country still being rather influenced by the effects of drought, bushfire, SARS, terrorism and international conflict.

Sovereign Hill won the major tourist attraction, beating Melbourne's Crown Casino Complex, the Melbourne Aquarium and Melbourne Museum.

Tourism minister John Pandazopoulos said the importance of tourism should not be underestimated.
"This sector is responsible for more than 150,000 Victorian jobs and $9 billion worth of economic activity across the state," he said.

Sovereign Hill's chief executive officer said it had been a tough time for Victorian tourism operators.
"Sovereign Hill constantly seeks to improve and develop its visitor experience highlighted by strong repeat visits, and this is confirmed by this award."

The historical park has invested much money into its Victorian market, trying to pick up extra visitors.

"What it (the award) showed was the brilliance of the original concept of Sovereign Hill, when, in the 1960's, our forefathers saw what could be achieved with what was effectively and old degraded mining site.

Ballarat Goldfields Holiday park co-owner Annette Terrill believed a focus on customer service allowed her to win an award.
"We always go that little bit further to make sure visitors have an unforgettable experience," Ms Terrill said.


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  Congratulation Sovereign Hill
Message Publié : 02 Déc 2003 17:25 
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CONGRATULATION SOVEREIGN HILL !!!!!

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Merci Kate pour cette trés bonne information sur Sovereign Hill. :wink:

Je suis content que cet endroit soit reconnue dans toute l'Australie et même au-delà. :D

Lors de mon dernier voyage en Australie, j'ai eu la chance de visiter Soverign Hill et j'ai vraiement apprécié cette visite. :D

Ce petit village reconstitué à l'époque des chercheurs d'or, est plein de surprises. :mrgreen:
Les gens habillés en habit d'époque vous font revivre tous ces moments oubliés, et vous replongent dans le passé. :)
Vous ne pouvez échaper à la recherche de quelques paillette d'or ( même les grands enfants, que nous sommes tous, se prêtent au jeu). :mrgreen:
Sinon vous pourrez toujours jouer au Bowling ou encore assister à un des nombreux spéctacles. :D
La viste, son et lumiére, de la mine est à ne pas manquer. :wink:
La meilleur façon, pour visiter tout ce village, est de prendre une des diligences qui vous emmenent à travers Sovereign Hill. :D

Pour avoir encore plus d'informations sur Sovereign Hill, je vous conseille de visiter leur site web en suivant ce lien
SOVEREIGN HILL


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  Ballarat set to boom with a little luck, help and planning
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The Sunday Age, Melbourne, le 23 Novembre, 2003.
(Sharon Mathieson, Canberra.)

With a bit of luck, planning and exploitation, Ballarat , then the Hawkesbury region north west of Sydney and 3: Alice Springs, should become Australia's Top 3 best performing regional areas.

According to the 2003 "State of the Regions" report, the 3 districts have the greatest potential to become booming regional centres within 10 years.
Noosa on the Sunshine Cost, Bendigo in Victoria, Shoalhaven on the NSW south coast, Ballina on the NSW north coast, Townsville in Queensland, Byron in north-eastern NSW and Bathurst, west of the Blue Mountains, make up the Top 10 areas most likely to prosper.
Released today in Canberra, the report is Australia's leading source of comparitive data on the economic performance of metropolitan and rural regions.
Report co-author and the principal economist at National Economics, Craig Shepherd, said he identified regions in the report he labelled as "night-watchmen". Like the cricketers, he said, nightwatchmen regions could survive the short term and had the ability to keep moving forward by pushing the score along.
"This is the case for night-watchman regions" the report said.
"Their current abilities do offer the prospects for a more successful future with luck, planning and success in exploiting the opportunities flowing from the potential ranking."
Dr Shepherd said the deciding factors towards a healthy regional economy were:
Growing population, an unemployment rate of less than 10%, export of education or business ser ices and commitment to keeping skilled people.
"A place like Ballarat has got all those things" he said.
"It's got a growing population, its unemployment isn't awful, it's got strong supply chains and it can export education and business services."
"All the areas in the top 10 are all in themselves now going pretty well.
Over the next 10 years, their outlooks are pretty strong in terms of their capacity to sustain themselves."
But Dr Shepherd said it was imperative that investment in the top 10 areas continued if they were to grow.
"These sort of communities are the ones where we need to make sure there aren't any hindrances to continued investment in housing, in social infrastructure, in roads and railways and airports and those sort of things" Dr Shepherd said. "Because, fundamentally, they are comparitively good places to invest. "
The report also found that ageing and migration patterns were the greatest impact on regional areas.
It found migration patterns associated with ageing could accentuate local economic decline.
"Where old people move to, the communties have got smaller economic basis and higher unemployment," Dr Shepherd said.
"Where young people move to, they have stronger economic basis, great innovation and higher productivity".

I was actually surprised to read this, (and prouder of my city than usual), as though my it is developing a reputation for being a Silicon Valley city (they term it Silicon Gully) good education and a good university with 3 campuses, businesses with big exports, a Fast Train project (won't be finished till nearly 2006, and 130 km/hr speed is their idea of 'fast'), I really didn't think it had the No 1 potential of all Australia!

Kate :D :D


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