[Bermagui Community] Establishing a Gourmet food trail: Meeting Tue 26 November

[Fiona Kotvojs]

Correction on venue - it will be held at Main Council Building in the Old Council Chambers

From: Fiona Kotvojs
Sent: Monday, 18 November 2019 10:08 AM
To: Cobargocommunity at scpa.org.au; community at brogo.org.au; Bermagui Community <bermaguicommunity at scpa.org.au>; begacommunity at scpa.org.au; quaamacommunity <quaamacommunity at scpa.org.au>; tilbacommunity at scpa.org.au
Subject: Establishing a Gourmet food trail: Meeting Tue 26 November

We are working to get a gourmet food trail up and running for next winter. If you are interested in being involved please come to a meeting in the Bega Main Council Building in the Old Council Chambers on Tuesday 26 November 10.30 - 12.30.
Our region produces a wide variety of high-quality gourmet food including truffles. The quality and diversity is second to none. Other areas in New South Wales and across Australia have built thriving tourism sectors throughout the year based on gourmet foods. But we are not making the most of this to build our tourism industry. Instead, we have a tourism season that is highly concentrated over the summer school holidays and then largely dies off with the exception of several weekend events throughout the year. Gourmet foods provide an opportunity to expand this.
We are working to establish a winter tourism season in this region based on truffles. Truffles ripen when we have frosts, from mid-June to mid-August, conveniently when local tourism is at its lowest. Given we have local farms now producing truffles and available for truffle hunts (which are in high demand particularly from people in Sydney and Canberra), this is a perfect opportunity on which we can capitalise. We can use truffles to develop our winter tourism.
At the same time, the plan is to develop this in a way that can be expanded. Expansion could be through establishing gourmet food trails across the region that bring tourists into the area outside peak period.
There will be a meeting in Main Council Building in the Old Council Chambers on Tuesday 26 November 10.30 - 12.30 for all those interested in being involved or supporting this. If you are a local producer or processor of high-quality food, tour operator, provider of accommodation or just interested in how you can participate in boosting our off-season tourism, come along to the meeting.
For more information, please give me a call on 0448 453 422.  Please also distribute this to all who may be interested.


Fiona

Fiona Kotvojs

Phone: 0448453422
Email: fiona at kurrajonghill.com.au<mailto:fiona at kurrajonghill.com.au>

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