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How to build a tourist destination

Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Last Updated: Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Watch the video of Alla Wolf-Tasker of Lake House

Alla Wolf-Tasker (right) decided to take a highly risky approach when she started her business, Lake House in sleepy Daylesford.

She had to build and educate a market; even the local council told her the business would not work.

Learn how Wolf-Tasker built her restaurant and hotel business into a regional icon, recruited and educated staff and laid the foundations of a tourism culture that is now the main industry of this small Victorian town.

 

  

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