rhino wrote:pushbutton wrote: There's nothing for tourists to do here.
Getting really sick of hearing this from you. Have you ever been to Perth? Hobart? Darwin? Found anything to do there (I have, and it has nothing to do with theme parks or rides). There is so much to do here, as has been exampled many times in these forums, and guess what? People do come and do stuff! Have a look in the paper, there is constantly stuff going on. I get the impression that if you are visiting another city, you will make an effort to find out what there is to do there before you go, but here in Adelaide you can't be bothered making that effort, you want it to be in your face so that you don't have to look.
We have the National Motor Museum here, the National Railway Museum, a maritime museum, world renown wine growing areas, beautiful white sand beaches, quaint seaside suburbs, beautiful hills villages, cafes and restaurants everywhere, a brilliant art gallery, an outdoor shopping mall with over 700 shops, little playhouses (theatres) dotted all over, a nightclubbing precinct, beautiful public gardens and a wonderful Botanic Garden, a zoo, an open range zoo, a gorgeous Japanese garden, an adventure playground, an interactive tram museum where you can ride the old trams, a self-guided mangrove walk on a boardwalk that floods when the tide comes in (it's brilliant!), slot-car racing, public swimming pools, surf beaches, jetties to fish off, Cleland Wildlife Park, walking trails in the parklands and up into the hills, and along the beaches, skydiving clubs, model aero clubs, model boat clubs, tracks where you can race your own petrol-driven remote control cars, elite level sports on every weekend March through September, a brewery where you can brew your own beer in tightly controlled conditions, lots of boutique breweries, sailing clubs, marinas where you can organise an afternoon out in the Gulf, scuba diving, hang gliding .... the list goes on...and on...and on
Nothing for tourists to do here!
The National Motor Museum, the National Railway Museum, Maritime Museum, are nothing special. Unless you are into those 'fringe' things. And not many people are.
Wine regions aren't all that interesting either. I've been to a few wineries, and it was mostly older people. Some young people from Adelaide do occasionally go on the tours, but that's because it's a piss up for them. How many people are going to travel to Adelaide, Australia to get pissed at wineries?
White sandy beaches? Quaint seaside suburbs? Hills villages? Not exclusive to Adelaide/SA.
Nor are cafes, restaurants, art galleries, outdoor shopping malls, theaters, night club precincts, public gardens, zoos, etc.
And adventure playground? St Kilda you mean? It's a shit hole that's hardly entertaining, unless your between the age of 4 and 12.
Slot car racing?
Model clubs?
None of this stuff is going to draw in tourists.
Of course, if Adelaide was a well known city, then yes, tourists would do these things if they hadn't already done them in their own cities.
But none of this stuff is a big draw card.
Adelaide needs something to put it on the map, to make an impact and a statement, to tell the world that we are here, come see us.
Expecting people to give a shit about things that their own cities have already, and expecting they will want to come see ours, isn't going to cut it.
What's so special about our zoo that 10000 zoos around the world don't have? Do you honestly think anyone cares about two pandas? What else will they do in Adelaide?
Why not turn our motor museum into something more then a boring museum with static displays of old vehicles? Dubai built Ferrari World, why don't we do something similar, but encompassing Australia's rich motoring heritage and motorsports history? Queensland has SeaWorld and a bunch of other places. They even have a thing called The Outback Spectactular..hang on, isn't SA the gateway to the Outback? Why don't we have something, a theme park even, that shows off the Outback, what it has to offer, the early settlers, etc..?????
Glenelg should have been a full blown entertainment precinct by now. But instead it's a heap of shit with a piece of shit ferris wheel that everyone creamed their pants over, a few clubs, and some hotels. Oh and I forgot, the remarkable tourist attraction that is the beach house. Just another scaled back development because of a few residents with big mouths
A few weeks ago they had speed boats near GIlman. Who knew about that? It's an annual thing actually I believe.
The Port River and surrounds being such a dilapidated shit hole who would want to go there? The event is barely even advertised as it is.
Empty land in the same area, a local consortium with cash in hand wanted to buy the land from the government and build a motorplex for drag racing that would have incorporated facilities for speed boat racing in the area. A development worth several tens of millions of dollars, that would have have spurned economic activity related to motorsports. Knocked back for God knows what reason.
Everything that you listed, those are small things which should complement the big draw card things. But we don't have the big draw cards in this city and state.
The belief, the image, that nothing ever happens in Adelaide is still very much alive and prevalent with our interstate cousins.
Something that everyone was raving about how bloody good it was, the light displays on the old historic buildings during the Fringe(last year?)...
Why in the hell was that not kept on permanently?
I suggested a light display on the roof of the Festival Theater..somebody said it cant be done, but it was done for the new SA logo launch. Now others are wetting them selves over the Vivid Sydney display, with it's 5th run just having started.
The nimby's have their various organized groups to oppose development in parklands and their neighborhoods and what not. Where are the pro development groups?
Sensational Adelaide, is mostly used by people who are pro-development and want to see our city and state grow and prosper, not be stuck in a time warp. This is the perfect place to cultivate and start a pro-development movement and implant it into the wider community, and help dispel the myths and lies and general bullshit and negativity spread by the nimby's.
Heck if you start to get some runs on the board, who knows some developers may even decide to send some cash your way to help finance fliers and the website even. If nothing is done, then nothing will change. And we will be sitting here in 50 years, on our quantum based computers still waiting for all copper to be replaced for a full FTTH setup, complaining about the same things.
If every other interest group, no matter how minor their interest can have their own organized groups for the benefit of their interest, why cant pro-development, pro-progress people have an organized group? Positive results would benefit the whole state and city.
Didn't the Perth guys over on SSC start something similar them selves that even got them positive media attention?
Btw, can we merge this thread and this thread?
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4731
Same topic of discussion really..
But not easy to just whack in place as the projection system involves massive boxes that obtrusively sit in front of each building, and require lots of manual intervention. However it would work well if we're talking a few weeks each year.