{"id":56279,"date":"2014-02-06T18:48:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T08:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=56279"},"modified":"2014-02-06T18:50:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T08:50:47","slug":"push-for-better-tourism-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/02\/06\/push-for-better-tourism-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Push For Better Tourism Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"

February 6, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

The South Burnett Tourism Association wants better signs placed outside the region to draw more tourists to the South Burnett.<\/p>\n

At its first meeting for 2014, held on Tuesday night at the Wondai Hotel and Cellars, SBTA vice-president Michael Boehm proposed the group establish a sub-committee to find locations where signs could be placed.<\/p>\n

The group would also devise strategies to ensure the signs could be maintained in the future.<\/p>\n

“This project isn’t about signage inside the region,” he told members.<\/p>\n

“It’s about advertising the South Burnett outside our borders to draw more tourists in.”<\/p>\n

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Flashback: A sign promoting the Great Bunya Drive on the Bruce Highway near Gympie in 2009 was deemed invisible to most passing motorists because of poor placement<\/figcaption><\/figure>The subject of external signage is a long-standing issue with the South Burnett tourist industry. <\/strong><\/p>\n

For more than a decade it tried to get a sign set up at Blacksoil, near Ipswich, to encourage tourists to travel up the Brisbane Valley Highway to the area.<\/p>\n

And a sign established by the Fraser Coast Regional Tourism Association on the Bruce Highway north of the Kilkivan turn-off in the mid-2000s – which aimed to encourage south-bound tourists to travel back to Brisbane via the South Burnett – drew heavy criticism for several years because of its “invisibility”.<\/p>\n

Former SBRC Mayor David Carter told the meeting the sign had consumed “up to a third” of the South Burnett’s share of the regional tourism organisation’s budget each year but was so poorly located most drivers who passed it didn’t see it.<\/p>\n

SBRC Economic Development Manager Phil Harding, who also attended the meeting, advised the SBTA the council had recently set up a signage committee to investigate how signage within the region could be improved.<\/p>\n

He said he was happy to take the SBTA’s proposal to that committee, even though it was outside the bounds of what they were currently tasked with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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