The Need of Wine Tourism

The tourism industry is one of the fastest growing sectors in the Australian economy. Tourism provides communities with an opportunity to display their region’s distinct and unique cultural and natural assets while creating employment and diversifying the regional economy. A diverse economy is one that can cope with the changes experienced in our current environment. Tourism is an industry like any other and requires sound planning and a firm commitment from the community to make it work. Like all economic activities the benefits of tourism may create social and environmental impacts which need to be managed through a partnership approach and appropriate planning at a local level.

For this reason tourism needs to work in partnership with the other sectors of a regional economy including primary industries, local government and community organisations to name a few. In this way tourism is integrated into the region’s future.