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June 5, 2010
The economies of coastal towns on the Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia, such as Victor Harbor and Goolwa, are increasingly dependent on tourism. But little tourism promotion is being done by the various state government bodies to promote tourism. So people on the Fleurieu Peninsula are frustrated.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Whalers, Encounter Bay, 2010
The tourism that is promoted on the road signs or billboards is pretty bland--we offered horse drawn carriages and old steam trains. Victor Harbor stands for yesteryear not today, let alone tomorrow. The exception to the old is whales cruising along the southern Fleurieu Peninsula on their way to Antarctica during the winter.
There is very little about the knowledge economy and a lack of interest in providing internet hotspots apart from the public library. The old people run the town
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