11/10/2005

Victoria's winery tourism records sparkling results

Victoria's Minister for Tourism, John Pandazopoulos, today announced the State's winery tourism industry had recorded phenomenal growth.

Mr Pandazopoulos, speaking at an event at Federation Square said that the number of visitors the wine industry attracted, as well as people it employs, provided important opportunities for the tourism industry to contribute to Victoria’s economic growth. “The latest Victorian Wineries Tourism Activity Survey (VWTAS) has revealed the number of visitors to Victoria’s wineries has grown from 3.2 million to ..........click to go to the Full Article>

Source: Vic Govt

Events worth $192M for Melbourne

12/10/2005

Business events worth A$192-million have been secured for Melbourne following a strong performance by the Melbourne Convention & Visitors Bureau (MCVB) during the 2004/05 financial year.

"The value of the business events we have won for Victoria is up by 25% on the previous financial year. Even more significant is the increase in economic impact of the international events we have secured, up by 55% on last year," said Garry Kingshott, CEO, MCVB. MCVB also increased the number of room nights delegates spend in Victorian hotels 25% and delegate numbers 12%. "At MCVB we continue to improve our ability to identify, bid for .......................... click to go to the Full Article>

Source: Schreiber Public Relations

Story ID: 10464

Victoria anticipates it's biggest cruise ship season yet

06/10/2005

A record 37 cruise ships will visit Victoria during the 2005/06 season, bringing 76,000 visitors to the State.

The Transport Minister, Peter Batchelor, said Victoria has made cruise shipping history, with one of P&O's most popular cruise ships - Pacific Sky making Melbourne its home port from next month for a series of five visits. On top of visits by the world renowned QEII, Melbourne will also host the Diamond Princess, which has capacity for 2,600 passengers. The Diamond Princess is scheduled to visit Melbourne eight times between ........................... click to go to the Full Article>

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The Bluedandenongs Portal conducted a super successful spring Promotion in conjunction with "The Victorian Senior" magazine and the Royal Melbourne Show. For details view our Newsletter posted Online September ........Click Here

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"70% of people who find and utilize products and services on the web, do so using search engines".
The Question is! How will my potential customers find my website ?
The Answer:
For the best Return On Investment (ROI), an individual website should be listed on an Information Portal that contains information relevant it's site. A Portal such as "www.bluedandenongs.com.au" which is updating generic information on the Dandenong Ranges almost daily is ideal. As a Portal it has already established a very significant search engine rating in all specific search topic areas,

We now have more accurate Web Analysis Software as part of our Web Marketing tools. The Good News is that the Blue Dandenongs Portal has increased its annual individual hits from 60,000 per annum to 90,000 over the last 3 months. That is an amazing 50% and still increasing as the Portal builds Content and Credibility. We expect to have doubled our viewer numbers by mid 2006. ie to 120,000

"Converted to copy paper" 10,000 odd Portal pages accessed over 7 days at Easter 2005 is a lot of information

 

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