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The winner; Wyndham Treetops Coffs Harbour.
RCI Green Award Gong goes to...
This year’s RCI Go Green first-prize winner, Wyndham Treetops Coffs Harbour, demonstrates the outcomes that are possible when receptive and committed senior management work effectively with motivated and innovative middle management to achieve desired environmental objectives. These outcomes include a visually stunning natural landscaping program, initiated in the past two years, which uses minimal energy and hosts a variety of native wildlife. Equally impressive are interior and infrastructure initiatives such as the progressive installation of LED lighting
and state-of-the-art low energy pool pump facilities. All these initiatives not only exemplify best practice environmental management but also enhance the quality of the resort experience.
Club Paihia, this year’s Go Green runner-up, is a two-time first prize winner that continues to demonstrate how cost-effective environmentally responsible practices can be implemented within an older property through refurbishments and ongoing site planning. These practices, which included comprehensive recycling, nature- scaping and green supply chain management, are being successfully progressed in the face of challenges associated with steep slopes, maturing native vegetation, and a wet maritime climate.
The Edgewater Club, this year’s third place winner, displays a commitment to implementing environmental initiatives, both interior and exterior, that add to the attractiveness of the units and the site while reducing costs and carbon footprint. This is taking place on a site where many facilities and services are shared with another resort.
AUSTRALIA
Margaret River & Hobart among globe’s ‘Top 10 Friendliest Places’
Margaret River and Hobart have both been named among the world’s Top 10 friendliest places, according to a readers’ choice survey by acclaimed travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler. Hobart was named in second place for its ‘unique location, beauty and kind, friendly city natives’ and Margaret River tied for sixth place, praised for its stunning vineyards and beaches. www.margaretriver.com and www.discovertasmania.com.au
and friendlier still, Hobart.
4 SPRING/SUMMER 2013
They call me Bruce.
SYDNEY
Madame Tussauds Sydney welcomes Bruce Lee
Madame Tussauds Sydney has welcomed the addition of one of the world’s greatest martial arts icons, Bruce Lee, to its collection of wax figures. Dressed in the iconic yellow and black jumpsuit from his final film, Game of Death, it took Madame Tussauds sculptors over 800 hours to immortalise the star - with 140 of those hours being spent on inserting each strand of hair. www.madametussauds.com/sydney
GOLD COAST
Paradise Hub 4217
Surfers Paradise
Transit Centre is set to become ‘The 4217’ village hub, a vibrant village hub offering locals and tourists high quality food and dining in an ever-evolving creative space. Named after the area’s postcode, The 4217 is expected to open later this year and will bring together passionate food providores and ever-changing art installations by contemporary Australian artists. So far the village hub will include a coffee house with onsite coffee roasting, Italian gelataria and bakery, fresh food delicatessen plus a mix of restaurants. www.the4217.com