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West Coast attraction Shantytown, a gold-rush village featuring 30 pioneer buildings, has been in business for five decades.
Volunteers built Shantytown on a wing and a prayer. Fifty years later, it s still going strong. Joanne Naish reports. Shantytown is so close to Grey mayor Tania Gibson’s heart she even got married there. She takes her children on the same steam train she fondly remembers from her own childhood visits. She married her husband, Stephen, in the pretty little white church that dates back to 1866 and originally stood in the gold mining town of No Town, before it was moved to Ngahere and then donated to Shantytown.
Thursday, 21 January 2021, 8:13 am | Destination Coromandel As one of the projects funded by the Government’s Strategic Tourism Assets Protection
Programme (STAPP), Destination Coromandel today announced it is receiving applications
from local event organisers for event marketing support through its $80k Signature . More
Thursday, 24 October 2019, 2:05 pm | Destination Coromandel
The first zipline canopy tour through native Coromandel bush will take off this Labour
Weekend at Driving Creek Railway. More
Thursday, 18 January 2018, 4:17 pm | Destination Coromandel
The Coromandel tourism industry is welcoming people to return for a relaxing holiday,
to make the most of summer plans. It has been business as usual for most of the region
Thursday, 21 January 2021, 8:13 am
As
one of the projects funded by the Government’s Strategic
Tourism Assets Protection Programme (STAPP), Destination
Coromandel today announced it is receiving applications from
local event organisers for event marketing support through
its $80k Signature Events Marketing Fund.
“Events
can provide compelling reasons for visitors to come to The
Coromandel, and they bring valuable economic benefits with
them, explains Megan Nunn, marketing manager for
Destination Coromandel. There is the accommodation, food
and retail spend visitors contribute in addition to event
tickets, but also our bond with them is strengthened each
time they come. Some of our visitors will then come annually
Press Release – Destination Coromandel As one of the projects funded by the Governments Strategic Tourism Assets Protection Programme (STAPP), Destination Coromandel today announced it is receiving applications from local event organisers for event marketing support through its $80k Signature …
As one of the projects funded by the Government’s Strategic Tourism Assets Protection Programme (STAPP), Destination Coromandel today announced it is receiving applications from local event organisers for event marketing support through its $80k Signature Events Marketing Fund.
“Events can provide compelling reasons for visitors to come to The Coromandel, and they bring valuable economic benefits with them,” explains Megan Nunn, marketing manager for Destination Coromandel. “There is the accommodation, food and retail spend visitors contribute in addition to event tickets, but also our bond with them is strengthened each time they come. Some of our visitors will then come annua