Tourism
As many communities in Australia thrive on tourism as the major source of their town economy, Community Geographic Domain Name websites are proving to be a valuable tool in promoting all aspects of the town and district to visitors to the area.
After four months of being live, Lowood’s website has reached its 3000th visitor. The highest users of the website are people planning weekend visits and re-locaters to the Lowood district.
World Heritage listed Lord Howe Island, is a small vibrant yet secluded island that can only be visited by plane, off the coast of NSW. With tourism being a vital part of the island’s economy, the Lord Howe Island CGDN is an extremely important part of promoting the great tourist destination to the world.
Pixie Rourke, Chair of the Lord Howe Island Tourism Association comments: “The community website is extremely important for Lord Howe Island. It helps present our beautiful island to the world and is important for our tourism based economy.”
www.wollombi.nsw.au has been used often by visitors to the region to see what to do and see whilst in the area.
www.condobolin.nsw.au - as a result of their community website a film producer contacted the Condobolin CGDN to talk about potentially filming a commercial in the central NSW town.
Outcome:
According to Peter Friminger, the web manager of www.wollombi.nsw.au, local businesses have mentioned that visitors have utilised local business through the website directory during their stay in the town.
