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Melbourne Art Fair

04/08/2010 (All day) - 08/08/2010 (All day)

contemporary art. Featuring more than 80 selected galleries from Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, China, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, Melbourne Art Fair is the leading trade fair and public exposition of contemporary visual art in the region. Other highlights include national and international collector programs, programs for curators, a line-up of free public forums, project rooms for emerging artists, art publications, a private lounge, guided tours and travel and accommodation packages. Established in 1988, the Melbourne Art Fair is held at the World Heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne. Photography by David Marks

Darwin Beer Can Regatta

08/08/2010 (All day)

A regatta like no other, with boats primarily built entirely from aluminum beer cans. This annual family event is rapidly becoming a spectacle for all who line Mindil Beach and cheer on the home-made boats of cans and cartons, as they flounder and sink in the shallows. The Darwin Beer Can Regatta started as an unusual by-product of the devastation caused to Darwin by Cyclone Tracy in 1974. A Darwin citizen, Lutz Frankenfeld, suggested a boat race with all the craft fabricated from beer cans in order to clear up the empties, and at the same time have a day of fun. The inaugural beer can race in 1975 was an instant success, and has developed into a major event with boat entries ranging from 1 to 12 metres and some even with secret weaponry. Entry is by donation, with proceeds going to projects of the combined Lions Clubs of Darwin.

Alice Springs Rodeo

14/08/2010 (All day)

See the amazing skills of the country’s top professional cowboys. As part of the Australian Professional Rough-riders Association official circuit, the Alice Springs Rodeo kicks off early Saturday evening. Watch the bareback bull riders hold on tight-fisted for the required eight seconds. Watch man and beast face-off in the steer wresting competition. Other events include calf roping, team roping, breakaway roping and the ladies’ barrel race. There are junior barrel races and the ever-reliable comedy clown. Full catering is available and buses will be running every half hour from the Post Office to Blatherskite Park and back, starting from 5pm.

Newcastle Jazz Festival

27/08/2010 (All day) - 29/08/2010 (All day)

Come and enjoy a wonderful weekend of great jazz and take an opportunity to catch up with the Australia wide Jazz family. This year the Newcastle Jazz Festival is celebrating its twenty-second anniversary and has continued to grow each year. The Festival features some of Australia’s best Jazz and Blues performers. This year performers will be heard in five different rooms within the City Hall at various times over the weekend. Highlights include a Jazz breakfast, gala dance on Saturday night and a Jazz Gospel on Sunday morning. Full details including registration form, program and details of the artists appearing can be obtained from the Newcastle Jazz Club website.

Reading Music Festival

28/08/2010 (All day) - 31/08/2010 (All day)

Every year the Reading Festival grows a little older and with this musically wiser. The festival has been going, in one shape or another since it’s conception as a Jazz event in 1961, a time when audio was in its ‘rock n roll infancy’; before the invention of music as we know it today and the time when the festival laid down its roots as the UK’s premier indie festival. From the early Jazz ramblings of Chris Barber (one of the co-founders of the original Reading Festival), Johnny Dankworth and Humphrey Littleton, in the different location of Richmond, to Windsor, then Sunbury and eventually Reading, the festival has always been at the top of its game. Attracting thousands of music fans, critical of the bands performances and really there just to enjoy the best that the festival has to offer, the Reading Festival has been a stalwart in the world of outdoor music. From the late 1960’s bands started to appear that are still revered as legends today; The Who, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Small Faces, T Rex, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, all great bands, but all cast from the same ‘rock mould’. It took the near destruction of the festival in 1988, a poor line up, poor weather and poorly attended, to see the Mean Fiddler organisation take the reins and steer the festival to the pinnacle of outdoor music that it is today, with its mix of indie/rock/punk/dance and every genre in between. Looking back over the line-ups on the posters, who can forget the last UK appearance of Nirvana at the festival 1992, the onstage melt down of the Stone Roses (their last show together) in 1996 or the first triumphant appearance of Metallica in 1997? All landmark events at a festival which is chock full of memories, mostly good, but some pretty bad. Who remembers the shocking ‘braining’ of Brendan Urie of Panic At The Disco in 2006 or 50 Cent getting everything thrown at him including a deck chair? Some shocking moments, but all part of the history of a festival which has been raised on rock, from classic to indie, Reading has it all. Reading Festival has and always will, lead the way in UK outdoor events of a similar ilk. Reading is a music festival designed by music fans, for music fans. When the line-up was released this year there were complaints that the ‘Sunday Rock Day’ had been ditched, but if you now look at the mainstage on Friday and the Radio One tent on Sunday, there are probably more rock & metal bands than any other year. The organisers listen to the fans and obviously take note of their comments, which is why the festival is probably the first one that most people attend and always will. Music for the people...... With this years festival having the debut headline appearances by Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys and Radiohead, I’m sure we will have some more classic performances to go down in the archives, for history sections of the future.

Mount Royal Mountain Bike Ride

29/08/2010 (All day)

The Mount Royal Mountain Bike Ride is a challenging 30 kilometre loop mountain bike ride on a quiet public gravel road through World Heritage forests of Mount Royal National Park, 50kilometres north of Singleton in the Hunter Valley. Alternatively, ride the shorter, easier forest route. The free ride starts from Callicoma Hill Eco-cabins, where accommodation and camping is available over the weekend. Bookings are appreciated. Bring your own bike, food and drinks. The bike ride is unsuitable for younger children. No support vehicles please.

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Tours

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Fields

Name

The name of the Tour. This could be an existing name (set by the company running the tour), or one you have to make up yourself (i.e. 'Australian South Coast').

Vocabularies

Tour Type:

Select the type(s) of Tour you're adding. Hold down the 'Ctrl' key on your keyboard to select multiple Tour types.

Price Range:

Select the Price Range your Tour falls under. Base this off the Tour's List Price (see below).

Duration:

Select the Duration of your Tour.

Destination:

Select the destination(s) of the Tour you're adding. Hold down the 'Ctrl' key on your keyboard to select multiple destinations.

Supplier

The Supplier field is used for linking a product to its Supplier's user account. Therefore, the product's Supplier must have a user account setup already. If the Supplier you're trying to link to is not in the list, email Peter with details of the Supplier you need setup.

Select the Supplier for this Tour. Note: the Supplier you select here will be given access to this product so they can update it.

Summary

The Summary field is used on the maps for displaying a teaser about the Tour. Users then click on the 'Read more' link to view the full description.

Enter some basic information about the Tour to entice users to read more about it.

Description

Enter some general information about the Tour that's not specific to a certain part of the Itinerary. This'll be the first thing displayed on the product page so make it enticing and interesting for users.

Itinerary

The Itinerary fields are for describing each part of your tour's Itinerary. For each part of the Itinerary, you can enter some text, images and links in a popup box.

Click the green 'plus' button on the right of the field. Fill out the form that appears in the popup box to create one part of the Itinerary for the tour. When finished, click Done to return to the Tour form where the part of the Itinerary you just created will have been automatically added to the field.

Use the 'Add another item' button to add as many Itinerary parts as you need. To edit one of the Itinerary parts added already, click the 'eye' button on the right of the field to open and edit that part of the Itinerary in a new window.

City

The City field is used for displaying Tours on the maps. Simply specify which City your Tour is located in.

If the City you want to link to already exists on the site, start entering it's name then select it from the list of matching cities that are displayed.

If the City doesn't already exist (i.e. it doesn't appear in the list), click the green 'plus' button on the right of the field. Fill out the form that appears in the popup box to create the City your Tour is located in. When finished, click Done to return to the Tour form where the city you just created will have been automatically added to the field.

Use the 'Add another item' button to add as many Cities as you need.

Location

While the City field shows where a Tour is located in the world, the Location field shows where it is located within that city (i.e. on the highway, down near the harbour, etc.). Note that you can add multiple locations on the map. To delete a location, select it with the 'pen' tool (it'll turn blue) and press the Delete key on your keyboard.

Using the 'hand' tool (top-right of the map), zoom-in on the city where your Tour is located. Once you've found exactly where your Tour is located within the city, use the 'pen' tool to mark it's location on the map. You can add as many locations as you need.

Route

The Route field displays lines between locations on a map. It is used for showing users where a Tour goes.

Using the 'hand' tool (top-right of the map), zoom-out so you can see all the locations your Tour goes to without having to scroll around. Then, use the 'path' tool to roughly mark the various locations on the map (lines will be drawn between them automatically). Double-click to mark the end of the route. Now, using the 'hand' tool again, zoom in on each of the locations you just added to make sure the points are placed correctly in each city. If you need to edit one of the points, use the 'path' tool to click on the Route (lines will turn blue, points will be orange) then click-and-drag the point to where you want it. Don't forget to go back to the 'hand' tool when you're done.

List Price

The List Price is only ever used for ordering a list of products by price, it has no effect on the price customers pay for a product in their shopping cart.

Enter the lowest price of your Tour options (i.e. if your Tour has a single adult option of $2500 and a family option of $8000, enter '2500' as the List Price - the lowest price).

Options

The Option fields are used for listing the various options available for your Tour. For example, you might want to give users the option of a 10-day or 15-day tour. Each of these would have a different price (configured later) and possibly a separate description and photos.

Click the green 'plus' button on the right of the field. Fill out the form that appears in the popup box to create an Option for your Tour. When finished, click Done to return to the Tour form where the option you just created will have been automatically added to the field.

Use the 'Add another item' button to add as many Options as you need. To edit one of the options added already, click the 'eye' button on the right of the field to open and edit that option in a new window.

Terms & Conditions

Note: The following Terms are automatically appended to this field for each product on the site and need not be repeated here:

All prices are in $AUD, are correct at time of issue and are subject to availability when booking. Payment by Visa and Mastercard will incur a 1.5% surcharge while Amex and Diners will incur a 3% surcharge. Flights not included unless otherwise stated. Images used for illustration purposes only.

Enter any Terms & Conditions specific to this Tour.

Staff Details

The Staff Details field is for entering details about the product so staff can find more information should someone wish to purchase it.

Enter details about where the Tour was found, who it is booked through, where the prices were sourced, etc. If mentioning a website, copy & paste the URL here.

Domain Access Options

This is where you decide what websites your Tour should be added to. To assist with this, go to the Domain Content page - it will help you in deciding what products should be added to what domains.

Send To All Affiliates:

This box should never be ticked for Tours. Make sure it's left unticked.

Publish To:

Select the domains to which this Tour should be added. Hold down the 'Ctrl' key on your keyboard to select multiple domains.

Source Domain:

Select the domain that your Tour most closely matches (based on the info on the Domain Content page). Note: The domain you choose here has to be one of the ones you selected above. Don't select 'Use active domain'.

Scheduling Options

These settings are for publishing or unpublishing content on a certain date. We don't recommend using the 'Publish on' setting, but suggest you use the 'Unpublish on' setting for automatically removing content that has expired. For example, if your Tour is only valid for a certain time, you can enter a date on which the Tour will be automatically removed from the site. This stops the site from displaying old and out-dated content.

Publish On:

Don't use this setting.

Unpublish On:

Enter the date and time on which this Tour expires (if any).

Don't forget to configure the Price Options for your Tour.

Supplier Registration

Use this form to register as a Supplier on our network of sites. Supplier's can create and upload their own tours, activities, accommodation, vehicle hires and special offers.

If your application is approved, one of our administrators will create an account for you and notify you of your login details via email.

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