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Innovating to meet changing visitor expectations is the focus of a new and exciting Consumer Insights session open to all High Country tourism industry businesses at Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre on Tuesday 24 April. Register Now Morning Sessions: Using Social Media to Ramp up your marketing – not waste your time Presented by Kate Walsh…

Pictured: Young chefs with Patricia’s Table at Brown Brothers chef, Doug Elder, behind the scenes at the 2017 High Country Harvest Grand Opening Dinner. Applications have opened for the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival Hostplus Hospitality Scholarship, an annual award given to a rising star in Australian hospitality. Now in its fifth year, the scholarship…

Lake Catani, Mount Buffalo. Credit: Brendan Holland Parks Victoria is keen to hear from tourism business operators interested in developing glamping experiences at four national park locations in the Grampians, Lake Eildon and at Lake Catani at Mount Buffalo. The Parks trial of temporary, light touch glamping services would take place for up to 12…

Tourism North East has commissioned Quantum Market Research to analyse and provide insights into arts and cultural heritage tourism in the High Country. This is a key priority of TNE’s Destination Management Plan and in order to develop this sector more fully, the research will gather data about what type of visitor travels for arts…

The 2017/18 Ride High Country-7 Peaks cycling season has been an outstanding success with more than 7000 individual Peaks rides registered to date via Tourism North East’s new Strava-integrated app. The app now provides TNE with invaluable real-time data, recording numbers tackling the peaks, individual rides and numbers of riders completing all 7 Peaks. By…

Bright Brewery’s Autumn Warmer, High Country Harvest 2017 High Country businesses can be part of the region’s annual High Country Harvest festival for free! Take advantage of the festival’s strategic marketing campaign by offering a High Country Harvest Menu or special Autumn Warmer for the duration of the event. Cafes and restaurants can create a…

Tourism North East has secured a major three-year funding deal of $225,000 from Visit Victoria’s Regional Events Fund. Underscoring the importance to the regional visitor economy of the food, wine and craft beer sector, Visit Victoria confirmed it will commit $75k per year across three years to support and further develop the High Country Harvest…

Pictured: The team from Mt Hotham Resort celebrate their 2017 RACV Victorian Tourism Award for Destination Marketing. The Victoria Tourism Industry Council is hitting the road with a series of free workshops to help tourism industry businesses prepare for the 2018 Victorian Tourism Industry Awards. The workshops are a ‘must attend’ for all entrants who…

Amber Gardner, TNE CEO with Bogong Horseback Adventures’ Lin Baird and Alex Phillips Meghan Gehrig, John Gehrig Wines (left) with Jill Smith from 1888 Boutique Accommodation Tourism business operators from across the High Country enjoyed great food and wine and a lively exchange of ideas at a recent Industry Networking dinner at Brown Brothers, Milawa.…

Don’t miss the opportunity to meet, catch up and exchange ideas with your fellow tourism business operators from around the region at Tourism North East’s Industry Networking Dinner at Brown Brothers Milawa on Tuesday 20 February from 5:30pm. These dinners are open to anyone and everyone in the regional tourism sector, whether your business is…