Food & Tourism Strategy for West Gippsland.

West Gippsland Food & Tourism Strategy 2022-2024

This West Gippsland Food & Tourism Strategy will help WGPA to positively improve businesses and growing food tourism opportunities in the peri-urban farming area of West Gippsland, and provide a strong foundation for future long-term tourism planning and development.

As part of this strategy, here are some of the benefits the West Gippsland region will gain:

  • Increase awareness of the railway townships’ offerings within the Bunyip Ward to key media partners within Victoria

  • Investment in key food & tourism operators’ photography and videography

  • A pilot social media campaign for a township village

  • Plus much more!

Hidden gems are waiting to be discovered…

The West Gippsland region has so many hidden gems waiting to be explored… Biddy Martha’s Cafe - a boutique cafe located in Bunyip is one of many!


West Gippsland Progress Association Food & Tourism Workshops

In partnership with the Cardinia Shire Council (CSC), West Gippsland Progress Association undertook several Food & Tourism workshops in late 2020 to gain insight and understand the local community’s needs & wants. This process identified ways to increase prosperity and build a more robust local economy after the devasting Bunyip Complex bushfires in March 2019.

The below illustrations (courtesy of Kristy Moegerlein) captured the findings from each of the workshops. These ideas and thoughts of the participants provided WGPA and CSC with the foundations to undertake a long-term Food & Tourism Strategy for the West Gippsland.

West Gippsland Progress Association Food Workshop - 1

West Gippsland Progress Association Food Workshop - 2

West Gippsland Progress Association Food Workshop - 3

West Gippsland Progress Association Tourism Workshop - 1

West Gippsland Progress Association Tourism Workshop - 2

TRC Tourism

Tourism, Recreation, Conversation Consultants also known as TRC Tourism.

 

After these Food & Tourism Workshops were undertaken, WGPA, in partnership with Cardinia Shire Council engaged TRC Tourism to develop a three-year Food & Tourism Strategy for West Gippsland. The Strategy is now available…

Putting West Gippsland on the Map!

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