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Mt Arapiles - Camping fee booking changes 1st July 20-Jun-2014 At 1:26:47 PM kieranl

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On 20/06/2014 ajfclark wrote:
>On 18/06/2014 patto wrote:
>>Oh dear. Check out what $3.5 million for a website gets you these days.
>
>What's even worse is it just looks like they put a new page design over
>the old park stay website. I haven't used it so I can't tell if it's functionally
>the same, but the functional design looks the same, just not the template.

From what I remember of the fee proposal, Parks do not currently have the funds for a new booking system So the income from the first few years of the new fee structure will be set aside to fund a new booking system But they say it will be difficult for the camping business to be profitable without a new booking system which they cannot have until they raise the money. It's a treadmill with no way off. If they actually have a business case that stacks up they should be able to borrow the money for a new system at government rates. But I doubt that the business case stacks up.

I'm guessing the existing system won't cope when the new load comes on after July so it will be a debacle on every level..