Archive for February 20th, 2010
Tasmania’s Bed and Breakfasts – Read the Small Print and If It’s Not Hosted, Keep Looking!
A couple of decades ago, Tasmania rocketed to popularity as a tourist destination – for its spectacular scenery, unspoilt wilderness areas, historic sites and buildings, and much more – made all the more appealing by its temperate climate; a climate unlike most of mainland Australia in that it has four ‘proper’ seasons, each offering quite different experiences.
Mainland Australians and overseas visitors flocked to the tiny island, which responded gallantly. Fine food and wine producers sprang up around the state, taking advantage of the fertility of the soil and pristine air to produce fare which is now a major attraction in itself. Attractions and activities proliferated the length and breadth of the island. Happily, the Tasmanian government also recognized the benefits the tourism industry could bring, in a clean, green way, to the state’s economy and invested heavily in it too.
And the Tasmanian bed and breakfast industry was born
