I was in Adelaide from Friday, 28 until Monday 31 May assisting the Australian Capital Tourism team at the Australian Tourism Exchange. The ATE is the largest inbound tourism trade show in Australia and the perfect way to showcase all that Canberra has to offer to the world.

Elizabeth Bomben lead the team. The image above gives you a glimpse of just how much work went into the event. The Canberra stand featured the largest video display of any stand attending and Elizabeth provided us with a state of the art kitchen to showcase our fantastic local produce, which was a very popular attraction.

I attended the first three days and Harry Stevenson from the Canberra Institute of Technology covered the last three. Our menus featured trout, Muscat, kangaroo proscuitto, mushrooms, gourmet vinegars and lots and lots of chocolate all sourced from the region.

It was a great honour and pleasure to be invited to join the team. I enjoyed the chance to spend some time with fellow tourism operators and the very talented team from Australian Capital Tourism. I am very confident the event was very successful selling the region – it’s not such a hard job when we have so much to offer! Click here for a reminder….

Evelyn & Richard recieve the 2009 Hosted Accommodaiton Award

We attended the annual tourism awards last night and in addition to enjoying some fine food, great local wine and dancing, we also won the Hosted Accommodation category of the awards. This was the 4th year in a row and our 9th major award, so we were very pleased.

This link will take you to a full list of winners (currently shows last years, should be updated soon!)