German tourists sold on Peninsula
The Peninsula is being sold to the German tourist market.
Vietentours Germany have just released in Europe their tour brochure in which the Peninsula features dominantly as their main base.
Vietentours have booked East's Ocean Beach Holiday Park for next year's Olympic Games.
The company has also booked all 18 rooms of the new Watersedge Woy Woy for the Games, a booking worth $70,000.
Vietentours general manager Mr Wolfgang Vieten said that he expected to bring between 1500 and 2000 German visitors to the Games, of which about 1200 would be accommodated on the Central Coast.
"East's Ocean Beach Holiday Park is the best park I have seen in the world and we are absolutely sure that our guests will enjoy their stay here," he said.
"It will actually be our head office outside Sydney during the games, as we have most of our customers staying here in Umina and in Woy Woy".
"The total visitor expenditure on the Central Coast from this group is around the $2.8 million mark, based on our experiences from six previous Olympic Tours," he added.
Vietentours will be back in Australia in the first week of October with travel and sales agents and representatives from the German media to promote their Olympic program and show them first-hand the quality and the style of their tour content.
The Central Coast has been chosen to host this October event.
East's Ocean Beach Holiday Park has already produced brochures in the German language.
Watersedge manager Mr Peter Chippindale said: "This is a nice way to start a new business. It also gives us the confidence that our product is right, having been chosen by international tour operators who have very high standards."
"When Watersedge Woy Woy opened on June 11, Woy Woy made its mark on the tourism map," commented Mr Horst Endrulat of Central Coast Tourism, which has been actively promoting the Peninsula.
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