Week 4 of placement

Hi again,

Nothing much to report this week - everyone at Hunter Tourism is pretty focused on Corroboree at the moment so I haven't really been getting as much work on the HRDRI (Hunter Region Disaster Relief Initiative) as I would like. I spent most of my time this week preparing a pitch on the five areas which Hunter Tourism promotes (Lake Macquarie, Newcastle, Upper Hunter Country, Hunter Valley and Barrington Tops). This basically involved working out an angle for a weekend away (e.g. adventure weekend) and then finding appropriate activities and accommodation to suit the weekend. Apparently these sorts of things are handy to have in case a media outlet calls looking for something to run. I also spent a bit of my time this week ringing up media and other organisations associated with Hunter Tourism to see if they were able to come to an information day for Corroboree. It was all good experience but I wish I was able to do more for the project I signed up for. Anyway, hopefully next week there will be more to do for HRDRI (though I'm not sure as Corroboree is the week after - so I'm quite sure all efforts will be put into that). I will try to put up some photos of the launch of the HRDRI soon so you can all see what was going on.

Until next time...

-Vicky