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Holiday boost shows Coast's `on the map'
0 ABOVE: Eight-year-old Kelly Chan had fun on Friday morning modelling clay when she went to the Capricorn Coast Society of Arts children's workshop. Twentyeight children spent the morning painting, modelling and making Christmas wrapping paper. The workshop was held at the Paint-Pot-Gallery in Yeppoon.
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THE Capricorn Coast was now on the map as a tourist destination, a motel owner said this week during a survey which found occupancy rates of 99 per cent over the school holidays. Tidewater Motel owner Trevor Williams said the holidays had been "very, very good" ... but a lot of people stayed only one or two nights. "About half the people are staying overnight and the others are our regulars who stay longer than that," Mr Williams said. He said a lot of people were splitting their travel because they realised they could see the Coast and the Highlands area in the same holiday. "It seems we have been put on the map as a tourist destination," he said. All motel owners surveyed this week said they had had a busy holiday period. Some had visitors who stayed for a week or two but many said increasing numbers were staying for only one or two nights. Capricorn Coast Tourist Organisation president Brian Hooper said stays of one or two days were "par for the course". The trend was not uncommon. "The average stay in motels in Queensland is usually two to three days," Mr Hooper said. "Rockhampton is usually used as a stopover place and perhaps people are using the Coast for this," he said. "This is just par for the course." Surfside owner Doug Duffy agreed with Mr Williams, saying there was a different trend in accommodation. "Most of them (tourist) are heading north or south because people are covering a bit more territory in their holidays," Mr Duffy said. "Although there haven't been many kids of school age. Perhaps with more kids going on school arranged holiday trips, more people are staying home," he said. New owners of the Tropical Nites Motel, Lyn and Bill Kavanagh, said they had only been on the Coast for six weeks, but most of their guests seem to be overnighters. "The majority of tourists are overnighters, perhaps staying two nights and going to Great Keppel on one day," Mrs Kavanagh said. "Some stay for two or three days but we kept a 95 per cent occupancy rate," she said. Most motels said the holidays had been booked out or close to it. Blossom Hooper (Seaspray) said the units were full with a combination of overnighters and people staying for a week. Como Units owner Fay Simons said they
NEXT week's Capricorn Coast Mirror will be unable to accept copy for advertisements or • sport after 6pm Tuesday because of scheduled pokk er cuts. The Mirror office, and the surrmunding area, will be without power from fpm on Wednesday. This means the Mirror will have to he completed before the scheduled cut off time. Because the paper will be produced earlier than usual, the Mirror will he delivered on Thursday afternoon instead of the usual Friday afternoon. This will mean the big Trade Fair Feature will be delivered in time for readers to attend the fair's first night (Friday).
Trade Fair Feature OWING to the time lost this week because of computer typesetter repairs. The Capricorn Coast Mirror is still accepting bookings and copy for the big Trade Fair Feature to appear next weep Both "Mirror" typesetters "crashed'. during the move to the new office on the corner of Adelaide Park Road and Cliff Street, Yeppoon. This delayed collection of copy for the Trade Fair Feature. Bookings and copy can now be accepted until Noon today (Saturday). Phone bookings to 39 4244 or call in at the Mirror's new office.
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had had almost 100 per cent occupancy rate since June, with visitors staying seven to 10 days. Pat Corbett (Seven Dwarfs) said they had a pretty good holiday although it had started slowly. "We took bus loads during the holidays, which meant we couldn't take people for a week, but we filled up our gaps with overnighters," Mrs Corbett said. Kinka Lodge part owner Judy Watts saw a different trend. "Most of the people here are Queensland families staying for a week or two but the time length might be because we're not in the main stream for overnighters," Miss Watts said. Island View Holiday Units manageress Roxanne O'Keeffe said their units had also been full up with people staying for one or two weeks.
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