How to promote Arrowtown as a base for skiing holidays in 2009 would be one of the first tasks for their re-elected committee, the Arrowtown Promotion and Business Association (APBA) decided last week.
The committee will be re-elected during the association's next monthly meeting, at the Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall on Wednesday.
At the association's annual meeting last Wednesday, the need to raise awareness of Arrowtown being ideally placed for access to all four skifields was mooted.
Compared with Queenstown, travelling time from Arrowtown to the Coronet Peak turn-off was about 15 minutes less, and 20 minutes less to Cardrona and Treble Cone.
Chairman Jono Palmer said the association was in a good state, with a good core group of people.
It had transferred an excess of funds at the meeting.
Increased funding from Queenstown Lakes District for the promotion of Arrowtown had been well-received.
Mr Palmer said the association wanted more members' input into arrowtown.com.
The upgraded website was re-launched last June, and nearly 60 local businesses had set up their free listings.
Those businesses reported an increase in traffic to their own websites, and in the number of bookings.
The meeting returned Mr Palmer, Bruce Gibbs, David Clarke, Fraser Skinner, Gary Mullings, Glen Wallace, Hillary Finnie, Melanie Hill and John Wilson, as QLDC liaison, to the committee.
Two new members, Adin May and Alan Garrick, came into the fold, and the officers will be elected at the Wednesday meeting.
