Thursday, October 31, 2024

Issue:

Mackay and Whitsunday Life

Editor's Note

Hi Everyone,

Wow - What a week! In your hands, you are holding 96-pages of organically sourced, 100% local news delivered for free to you!

The whole team has done an absolutely phenomenal job in creating this paper, in particular the 15-page Whitsundays Tourism Awards Special Feature that showcases 22 local businesses who won awards on Saturday night.

From making phone calls to every Whitsundays Tourism Award recipient asking if they’d like to participate in the feature through to sensational articles written about winners and backed up by numerous celebratory ad designs – it’s been a whole team effort!

Every single member of the team has pulled together and worked especially hard this week – thanks guys!

The office has been operating at a faster pace than usual and while it’s been exhausting, it has also highly exhilarating! Energy levels have been propped up by caffeine and chocolate, and by now possibly a few glasses of celebratory wine!

Another team that works extremely hard here in the region is Tourism Whitsundays. The effort that went into organising the Whitsunday Tourism Awards was incredible, and the event was a great celebration of our vibrant tourism sector.

With 1 in 3 local jobs relying on tourism in the region, the work Tourism Whitsundays do to bring holidaymakers here from both near and far is vital to our economy and it was wonderful to celebrate the whole industry’s achievements on Saturday night.

For the full Whitsundays Tourism Awards Special Feature and to read about the fantastic local operators who won awards over the weekend, please turn to page 15.

Rach

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