Colac Visitor Information Centre

  • Colac visitor centre operator considered

    Colac Otway Shire Council will seek expressions of interest for a new Colac Visitor Information Centre operator, despite officers recommending handing the centre over to volunteers to run.

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  • Plans for Colac information centre’s future

    Colac’s Visitor Information Centre could become entirely volunteer run, under a new council vision for the city’s visitor services. 

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  • Submitters want volunteers

    Community speakers have backed a return of volunteers to the Colac Visitor Information Centre, while councillors have made sure the final decision will be made at COPACC, not Apollo Bay.

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  • Submitters to speak on Colac visitor services

    More than twenty community submissions are calling for Colac’s Visitor Information to stay open – with seven people ready to lobby Colac Otway Shire Council further this week.

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  • News in Brief

    Submitters to speak Residents and businesses have shared feedback on what they want for Colac’s future visitor servicing model, with 24 submissions received. The council’s community and economy general manager said the council received strong community engagement to the visitor servicing review which closed for comment on Monday. Mr Seuren said there was also good […]

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  • Opinion – Colac Visitor Information Services

    Why would you close it? Why would anyone want to close down the Colac Visitor Information Centre? In the early 1990s when the Colac VIC was operated by volunteers and supported by council it was open from 10am to 4pm seven days a week, and the district was promoted as ‘Colac by Lake, Gateway to […]

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  • Grant for digital signage in Colac Otway

    Colac Otway Shire Council has successfully applied for $80,000 in State Government funding for digital tourism signage, ahead of completing its visitor servicing review.

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  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    Tree removal anger I writing to express my anger and disappointment with the Colac Otway Shire for allowing the cutting down of the trees in Bruce Street. One of these trees has been home for a family of Magpies for at least the last 20 years, likely longer.  Magpies are protected, you would think that […]

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