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Newsletter number 26

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Australian Alps wins Tourism Award

The Australian Alps community awareness program has been recognised for its outstanding contribution to the tourism industry through an award received at the Canberra Region Tourism Awards 2001 ceremony in the category of “General Tourism Services”.

Odile Arman, Convenor of the Community Relations Working Group (CRWG), prepared the award submission, highlighting the Community Awareness Program. The program encompasses the activities that have led to the promotion of the Australian Alps as a premier tourist destination as well as raising awareness of the Australian Alps cooperative management program.

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Newsletter number 25

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Stop press … rising to the challenge

Recently the AALC and Working Group members met to discuss the implications of changed funding arrangements. Not surprisingly everyone turned their thoughts to a new model for the Alps Program.
In brief, the meeting agreed to:

• Retain opportunities for on-ground liaison;
• Continue to provide forums for best-practice land management;
• Maintain 3 – 4 Working Groups of discipline specialists plus short-term project Task Forces;
• Operate within $280K pa with additional agency funding for special projects eg. feral horses;
• Support Australian Alps IYM 2002 activities;
• Investigate complementary Alps plans of management; and
• Advertise for a Program Development Officer across all agencies.

Some of these actions are being implemented as this newsletter goes to press, with a Works Program Development meeting scheduled soon.

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