Big things are happening at Wilpena Pound
It’s been a big week for our neighbours up the road. We heard this week that Keith and Lynette Rasheed have sold the Wilpena Resort to the Anthology Group. The handover is happening just about as we write this.
There have been months of rumours in the district that it was the Voyages group or Alan Scott of Mt Gambier trucking fame or the group which has taken over the Ozone Hotel in Kingscote, Kangaroo Island. The bush telegraph works hard around here -but its accuracy is sometimes open to question! Anwyay it’s great to have an operator with a national profile coming to the district. Anthology also operates the Bay of Fires Walks and Cradle Mountain Huts in Tasmania and are developing top-end products elsewhere. And its nice that its key person, Grant Hunt, is on the board of Tourism Australia!
This reinforces the power of the Wilpena brand. It’s been the heart of tourism in the Flinders Ranges for decades and we all owe much to Keith and Lynette for their years of effort. We’ve all benefited from the exposure which they’ve won for Wilpena and the Flinders Ranges through their marketing and publicity efforts internationally and locally. Enjoy the break from managing 40 or 50 staff and the change to sitting back and enjoying the ambience from our southern neighbour, Arkaba Station.
We’re really looking forward to getting to know our new neighbours and working with them to develop tourism in the Flinders Ranges. This is a pretty neighbourly area and we do our best to work in with each other. That’s because we live in a really beautiful place -but there aren’t a lot of people on the ground and so we just have to pitch in together to be heard and to get things done.
So, welcome Anthology! You’re not just coming to Wilpena and the Flinders Ranges. You’re bringing a national perspective to tourism in South Australia.