The HVWTA is thrilled to announce that the Hunter Valley shone brightly at the 2013 QantasLink Hunter & Central Coast Tourism Awards on Wednesday evening. The event, which attracted more than 270 attendees from the Hunter Valley and Central Coast region, celebrated the entrants and gold winners of the 24 categories.

The HVWTA congratulates our gold award winners, and all of the businesses that entered the awards, to showcase the great experiences that the Hunter Valley is lucky enough to boast.  The gold winners are as follows:

Tourism Restaurants and Catering - Esca Bimbadgen

Luxury Accommodation - Chateau Elan at The Vintage, Hunter Valley

Excellence in Sustainable Tourism Tourism Wineries - Margan

Tourism Wineries, Distilleries and Boutique Breweries - Margan

Hosted Accommodation - Hermitage Lodge

Unique Accommodation - Somewhere Unique

“The HVWTA are celebrating alongside our gold winning members and it’s fantastic so many for our area entered and were finalists. Every year the competition bar gets lifted as the calibre of the experiences available in the Hunter advances. The Hunter Valley has been recognised on a national level as a pillar destination in Australian Tourism and we appreciate the blood, sweat and tears behind the scenes that operators contribute to making the destination the success that it is. Now that the winners have been rewarded on a regional level we wish them every luck in the NSW Tourism Awards on the 28 November.” Said Mike De Iuliis, Acting Vice President of the HVWTA.

The winners will now go on to the NSW Tourism Awards to be held in Sydney on Thursday 28th November.

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