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Spring 2024 - Autumn 2025




The History of Tourism in this District


Sunday 15 September 2024 at 2pm at St John’s Presbyterian Church Hall, Arrowtown.


Entry $10. Visitors are welcome. Afternoon tea will be served.



        







                          





















Presented by Amanda Viana from the Education Unit at the Lakes District Museum. Learn about the geography that first attracted tourists to our

‘Switzerland of the South’, and the forces that have propelled tourism from 1870s until now.


Image TSS Earnslaw delivers tourists to the Bryants' buses in the 1940s.