News
Issue No. 14 - December/January 2004
News Snapshots
Blueprint for freight export bonanza
Sustaining interest in ecotourism
Australia’s leading wildlife tour operators, planners and researchers were in Adelaide in November for the inaugural Sustainable Wildlife Tourism Workshop, the first event coordinated by the newly established organisation Wildlife Tourism Australia.
The event launched Adelaide’s Wildlife Trail, aimed to position Adelaide as Australia’s wildlife capital. Ten nature—based tourism operators within an hour of Adelaide are involved in this new publicity campaign. The workshop preceded the 11th National Ecotourism Conference from 10—14 November in the Riverland. Ecotourism – Leading Innovation, Driving Sustainability featured international ecotourism experts and operators discussing a wide—range of ecotourism related topics.
Export Centre in the showbag?
CITCSA, Australian Trade Centres and the Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society of SA hosted the seminar to discuss an Export Centre for Adelaide. The trio are proposing an essentially a private sector facility, the proposed export centre would be modelled on Melbourne’s Australian Trade Centre which opened for business in August this year and rapidly gained commercial viability.
The initiative emerged from CITCSA’s Adelaide Epicurean 2003, when Royal Adelaide Showground, Wayville hosted some 60 international business delegates who included the Royal Show and the Taste SA Exhibit in their Adelaide Epicurean experience.
SA freight industry launches shipping website
The South Australian Freight Council (SAFC) has launched a website designed to inform and assist businesses and individuals involved in the freight industry. www.safreightcouncil.com.au is designed to provide a “one stop shop" for freight and logistics news, information on best practice, and industry initiatives. “We hope this website will encourage South Australian frei...
