Tourist Attraction Signposting

Category

Download application forms
[forms are all provided as PDF files]

1. Major Tourist Attractions

A number of categories of major tourist attraction are eligible for signposting.  Some general eligibility criteria apply to all the categories and there are also additional criteria specific to each category.  Please select from the list adjacent for more information on the requirements for each category.

Galleries (PDF file, 344kb)

Museums (PDF file, 256kb)

Craft Based (PDF file, 327kb)

Aboriginal cultural centres & sites
(PDF file, 338kb)

Historic properties or sites
(PDF file, 512kb)

Wineries (PDF file, 355kb)

Primary and secondary industry (PDF file, 328kb)

Outdoor based
(PDF file, 416kb)

Theme parks (PDF file, 457kb)

Architectural/engineering structures (PDF file, 324kb)

Other attractions
(PDF file, 306kb)

State significant
(PDF file, 320kb)

2. Tourism Product Categories

These are clusters of tourism product that fit into a shared theme, and which have been deemed eligible for signposting. For example, some towns have a number of well-presented and interpreted historic sites and properties (and meet all the other required criteria) to make them eligible to be signposted as Historic Towns.

Wine tourism regions
(PDF file, 113kb)

Historic towns, villages and precincts (PDF file, 369kb)

National Parks, State Conservation Areas, State Forests & Major Water Storage Areas (PDF file, 324kb)

Major regional tourist centres (PDF file, 157kb)

Seaside towns and villages (PDF file, 213kb)

3. Identification and Information

These are signs that highlight eligible visitor information services or welcome visitors to an area.

"Welcome" signs
(PDF file, 66kb)

Accredited Visitor Information
Centres (PDF file, 59kb)

Non-accredited visitor information services
(PDF file, 74kb)

4. Resort accommodation and service facilities

The RTA caters for the needs of road users with the provision of signs for service and accommodation facilities. These include services such as food and fuel, where road users can rest and recuperate, where they can locate significant public services (e.g. hospitals or airports), and where they can seek accommodation. These signs have a white legend on a blue background.

Resorts are the only accommodation type that may be signposted with a business name. The rationale is that the traffic volumes that resorts generate require the actual resort name to facilitate the safe navigation of the road users. Resorts need to apply to TASAC for signposting of their facility. If the facility has been assessed by AAA Tourism as being a minimum of a four-star rating in the AAA Tourism "Resort" category.  All other accommodation and service providers need to apply to their nearest Regional RTA office. They may be eligible for a symbol that indicates the type of service available.

Resorts (PDF file, 218kb)

5. Driving Experiences

The review of the driving experience category is nearing finalisation. Tourism NSW and the RTA were significant contributors at a national forum which reviewed the Australian Standard for tourist signposting in June 2007.

The review of this category will deliver an enhanced signage treatment which will meet the needs of the visitor and will allow the NSW tourism industry new criteria under which to apply

For further information on this review please contact Dean Long on 9931 1152.

Touring route application
(PDF file, 126kb)