Visitor Centre November
The Visitor Centre will be open daily from 9:00am – 1:00pm.
Businesses must email their weekly schedule information preferably by Friday EOD (Saturday at the latest) to be included in the DAS.
Phone: 02 6564 2114 Email: visit@lordhoweisland.info
Social Media
The season is already in full swing, and we encourage all content creators to contact our social media team for collabs and to be featured on the Lord Howe Island socials. We will provide guidelines for promoting Lord Howe Island activities in alignment with our World Heritage values.
Contact Pia at tourism@lordhoweisland.info or DM us on Instagram.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Lord Howe Island resident, Justin Gilligan, has been honoured in this year’s prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition at the Natural History Museum in London.
Justin Gilligan’s photo A Diet of Deadly Plastic was awarded winner of Oceans – The Bigger Picture.
For Photographer, Cinematographer and Competition Judge Luciano Candisani, “photography is one of the most important tools for the most important message of all time – humanity needs to find a new way of relating to the planet. In this photograph, with creativity and a sense of composition, the photographer managed to achieve this universal theme. The image is touching and powerfully questions us about ourselves.”
Congratulations Justin!
See more at the Natural History Museum website.
NSW Tourism Awards
The NSW Tourism Awards, 2024, finalists have just been announced and we’re thrilled to share with you that two Lord Howe Island businesses have made the list this year: Dive Lord Howe and Love Lord Howe.
The NSW Tourism Awards represent the pinnacle of recognition in the state’s tourism sector and serves as the only pathway for NSW businesses to compete at the national level through the Australian Tourism Awards. This year, the award ceremony will be hosted by The NSW Tourism Association and the winners will be announced at the 2024 NSW Tourism Gala in November in Sydney.
The best of luck and congratulations to Dive Lord Howe and Love Lord Howe!
See more information here.
North Coast Tourism Symposium
Earlier this year, the LHITA participated in the North Coast Tourism Symposium and Tourism Awards held in Port Macquarie. The event was a great success with both breaking attendance records and showcasing talent offers from across the region and wider industry.
A lucky winner has now been chosen in the draw, winning a trip to Lord Howe Island. Ian, from Port Macquarie, will visit the Island with his family in May, 2025.
A message from Destination North Coast:
“We are extremely grateful for the generous contribution of many giveaways and door prizes. We gave away two bottles of gin from Lord Howe Island Distilling Co, five ‘The Stranded Chef’ cookbooks by author and chef Dennis Tierney and two Port Macquarie Monopoly games donated by Port Macquarie Hastings Council. We are most grateful to the many amazing Lord Howe Island industry stakeholders, along with Eastern Air Services and Rydges Port Macquarie who contributed to our major door prize, a trip for two to Lord Howe Island including a total of eight nights’ accommodation at Somerset and Admiralty Apartments and an abundance of world-class tourism experiences to be delivered by Dive Lord Howe: A Galapagos Shark Snorkel Experience; Sea to Summit Expeditions: A Mount Gower guided tour; Reef N Beyond: A trip to Ball’s Pyramid/Island Expedition; Marine Adventures: A Glassbottom boat North Bay Turtle Nature and Snorkelling Tour; Liv for the Sea: An Introductory Freedive Experience; Coral Cafe: Dinner for 2; Lord Howe Island Distilling Co: Island Gin Tasting Experience and Lord Howe Island Museum: Informative Island History Lecture.”
Lord Howe Island Featured in National Geographic
The shark research snorkel by Dive Lord Howe was featured in the National Geographic UK issue this November. The special Australia cover story by travel writer Justin Meneguzzi dives deep into Australia’s spectacular great outdoors, which includes the study of sharks on Lord Howe Island.
See the online inclusion here: 8 unique experiences in Australia, from sailing in the Whitsundays to aurora hunting
Contact:
For visitor related enquiries and business schedules: The Visitor Centre at visit@lordhoweisland.info
For memberships, media and social media: The Tourism Officer at tourism@lordhoweisland.info