Apply for tourist signage

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Please note that the materials and installation of any approved signage is at the cost of the business.

Apply for Tourist Signage

Address of Applicant

Work Phone

Email Address

Establishment Details

Establishment Name

Establishment Address

Establishment Website

To qualify for tourist signage, the establishment should meet these criteria

Tourist Signage Criteria Select all that apply

Has tourism as a core business activity?

Provides a tourism experience in addition to, or as part of, any commercial/retail activity (i.e. regularly educating or demonstrating the manufacture of goods, or demonstrating crafts, as distinct from retail sales or other major use of the premises)?

Has all relevant government and council licences and approvals to operate as a tourist facility?

Is open to the public without prior booking during the facility’s normal opening hours?

Is open on weekends and at least three other days of the week, plus public and school holidays?

Is open for a minimum of seven hours per day on the days the facility is open?

Has the days and hours of opening clearly displayed at the entry point?

Provides clean and conveniently located toilets, including those suitable for disabled users?

Provides adequate all-weather off-street parking, including dedicated spaces for disabled visitors, also for coaches and other large vehicles (if such vehicles are ever expected)?

Has an entrance to the above parking, which is in a safe location and designed to appropriate standards for traffic using it and the traffic volume along the road?

Has information about the facility available at nearby and regional visitor information centres (opening hours, admission prices, location and directions)?

Promotes the location and clear directions to the facility for visitors from outside the local area (utilising electronic and print media)?

Is appropriately signed within the property line, including clear indication about parking, so that it is easily identifiable to passing road users?

Has appropriately trained visitor contact staff providing high standards of customer service?

Does not, and cannot, have advertising signing visible from the local road?