Key and Iconic stories

The Sapphire Coast’s cultural and heritage is underpinned by numerous stories, heroic tales, folklore and both Indigenous and European culture and beliefs. It is through these stories that heritage tourism in the Sapphire Coast can be brought to life.While not every heritage story will be captured in the final Sapphire Coast Heritage Tourism Strategy, it important that all stories can be documented and heard. The Sapphire Coast Heritage Tourism blog provides a forum on which community and industry stakeholders can share their own personal stories of the history and culture of the region.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Invitation


The SCT Cultural Heritage Working Group has released stage one of the draft strategy for public comment and input. The consultants EC3 Global have collected an array of local tales and with the Working Group identified three iconic stories for the region: the Killers of Eden, Meeting of the Waters and In the Shadow of the Mountains.

These stories were selected from the top ten stories identified from  the initial stakeholder survey and an audit of Stories, Products and Experiences available within the Sapphire Coast,  followed by further stakeholder workshops and developed a ‘Matching Stories and Experiences’ report . This report listed the Top Ten Heritage Stories as future opportunities for the development of heritage tourism for the Sapphire Coast.

While all of the stories provide an insight into the natural and cultural heritage of the region, three key iconic stories were selected for further development as the first part of the strategy. The Killers of Eden, Meeting of the Waters and In the Shadow of the Mountains provide an inclusive framework for developing existing and future tourism opportunities.
We would like to hear your stories or comments on the strategy either on this page or the individual story
 pages. Press post comment below for this page or go to the individual story pages above.
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