Website celebrates 10 years
The Pearl Beach website, pearl-beach.com, this month celebrated its 10th anniversary.
In December 2002 the website was established by Mr Ian Butler who relocated to Pearl Beach from Sydney with his wife shortly after.
"I found there was not a definitive website for Pearl Beach and decided to rectify the situation by privately funding and administering a community and destination resource," Mr Butler said.
"The website provides a wealth of valuable information for those wishing to visit, holiday or reside in Pearl Beach.
"It presents specifics and particulars on aspects of the area to assist and inform about all that Pearl Beach has to offer to visitors and to the community at large.
"The website has been revised several times since its inception and is now a modern, practical and easy to understand public information source.
"Today the website is actively linked to other information, destination and tourism sites nationally as well to others in the UK, Europe, North America and Asia - Pacific," said Mr Butler.
Besides the Pearl Beach site, Mr Butler operates two other websites for the Pearl Beach area.
Pearl Beach Community Commerce (commerce.pearl-beach.com) provides community access to an online directory of professional and trades people serving Pearl Beach and nearby areas.
Mr Butler also provides the Opera in the Arboretum website (opera.pearl-beach.com) for the Rotary Club of Woy Woy's annual charity fundraiser.
"Opera in the Arboretum, which is now in its eighth year, has become the iconic cultural event that attracts nearly one thousand patrons to Pearl Beach," said Mr Butler.
"The website provides a definitive public information source for the Pearl Beach area of the Central Coast in a way that is not dealt with by either the state or local government tourism sites.
"One only has to be at the beach front on a fine sunny weekend now to see the large number of families and visitors enjoying themselves.
"There's no doubt that the Pearl Beach website has played a significant and major role in promoting Pearl Beach over the past 10 years and continues to do so.
"The local businesses and the community as a whole are the winners of the websites' success," said Mr Butler.
Email, 27 Nov 2012
Ian Butler, Pearl Beach