Ettalong Diggers starts tourism information centre

The Ettalong Diggers Memorial Club will supply a staff member to run the tourism information centre five days a week for six months.

The centre will operate from Wednesdays to Sundays.

Ettalong Diggers CEO, Mr Bill Jackson said: "I am part of the Peninsula Chamber of Commerce tourism sub-committee and as part of that the Ettalong Diggers board decided we really needed to push tourism on the Peninsula and Central Coast.

"We have devoted one employee to it for a six month trial but it will be one year before we really see some results," he said.

Mr Jackson said the visitor information centre was building up a database of local businesses and organisations that want to be promoted to tourists and would be happy to hear from anyone with tourism attractions to promote.

"We are pushing mainly Peninsula and Central Coast things but also state-wide attractions.

"We are also taking all the information from the other approved visitor information centres around the state including our mothership, Central Coast Tourism," he said.

However, Mr Jackson said the Peninsula's visitor information centre was not part of Central Coast Tourism.

"It comes under the banner of Ettalong Diggers Tourist Information," he said.

"We are getting down to finalising a name for our website and a cue line that we can put through all our website, facebook, print, radio and any type of media outlet we can find," he said.

Interview, 11 May 2016

Bill Jackson, Ettalong Diggers

Reporter: Jackie Pearson