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Terry Karamaloudis, the manager of tourism and major events at the City of Bendigo, told The New Daily the town was “absolutely thrilled” to have been given the title.
The award is determined by search trends, affordability, accommodation quality and reviews.
“It just gives us great pride to know that we’ve been recognised by the platform and it really gives us the desire to keep going, to keep doing what we’re doing and making so we can continue to be a destination of choice,” he said.
Bendigo’s Golden Dragon Museum is one of the city’s major tourist drawcards, particularly as the Lunar New Year ushered in the Year of the Dragon.
The museum houses the spectacular feathered and beaded dragon Loong, which was brought to Victoria by Chinese miners and merchants during the gold rush of the late 1800s.
“If people are born in the Year of the Dragon, now is a good time to come to Bendigo and see our imperial dragon,” mayor Andrea Metcalf told AAP.
“He won’t come out to parade any more, but he was there at Federation in 1901.”
The largest Buddhist stupa in the western world can be found at nearby Myers Flat, and Karamaloudis thinks the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion is something everyone should see.
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