Break O'Day Tourism Development Reviewing the impacts of free camping within the Strategy 2012 - 2017 municipality; and Keeping a watching brief on development in national parks. The Break O’Day Tourism Development Strategy provides a framework and directions for tourism initiatives over a 5 year As with the Destination Management Plan, the Break O’Day period. The strategy focuses on the following three areas: Tourism Development Strategy does not provide broader Management; spatially based strategic directions in relation to future tourism uses that might seek to locate throughout the region. It Development; and identifies a number of possible initiatives and a number of Marketing. issues that need to be reviewed. However it does not provide a strategic framework that is focussed on assisting planning Recommendations under the heading of development are most authorities to make decisions on planning permit applications relevant to this project, given the focus on the planning and and rezoning requests in the future. development approvals system. Relevant recommendations include: Options provided in Report 1 Establishing a local connector road to the East Coast; The first report in this project identified three options for tourism Enhancing visitor experiences in St Helens by initiatives development in the region. Those options are summarised in such as completing the St Helens boardwalk; Figures 2. The report did not identify a preferred option. Road access to Blue Tier to capitalise on nature based Options 2 and 3 were similar, except that Option 3 included the assets e.g. trails, walks waterfall tracks, drives; establishment of an iconic walking trail along the East Coast, Traffic management in St Helens; that would provide a year round attraction that would link local tourism experiences in different parts of the region. Figure 2: Options provided in report 1 11 sustainable tourism plan | hansen partnership | february 2015
Break O'Day Tourism Development Strategy 2012 - 2017 The Break O’Day Tourism Development Strategy provides a framework and directions for tourism initiatives over a 5 year period. The strategy focuses on the following three areas: Management; Development; and Marketing. Recommendations under the heading of development are most relevant to this project, given the focus on the planning and development approvals system. Relevant recommendations include: Establishing a local connector road to the East Coast; Enhancing visitor experiences in St Helens by initiatives such as completing the St Helens boardwalk; Road access to Blue Tier to capitalise on nature based assets e.g. trails, walks waterfall tracks, drives; Traffic management in St Helens; Reviewing the impacts of free camping within the municipality; and Keeping a watching brief on development in national parks. As with the Destination Management Plan, the Break O’Day Tourism Development Strategy does not provide broader spatially based strategic directions in relation to future tourism uses that might seek to locate throughout the region. It identifies a number of possible initiatives and a number of issues that need to be reviewed. However it does not provide a strategic framework that is focussed on assisting planning authorities to make decisions on planning permit applications and rezoning requests in the future. Options provided in Report 1 The first report in this project identified three options for tourism development in the region. Those options are summarised in Figures 2. The report did not identify a preferred option. Options 2 and 3 were similar, except that Option 3 included the establishment of an iconic walking trail along the East Coast, that would provide a year round attraction that would link local tourism experiences in different parts of the region. Figure 2: Options provided in report 1 sustainable tourism plan | hansen partnership | february 2015 11
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