Great Ocean Road Surf Tours hit the head lines

With their continued success, Great Ocean Road Surf Tours hit the front page of the Surf Coast Times this week.

"We love creating the most amazing, personalized and sustainable surf tours for our customers.  To be recognized for this is a huge achievement and one we are very proud of."  Said Alistair Lawson, owner/ Director of Great Ocean Road Surf Tours.

Telstra Australian Business Awards Winners 2013

The Telstra Australian Business Awards had their night of nights on Tuesday 2nd July 2013.

Finalist in Regional Business and winners in the Mirco Business category were Great Ocean Road Surf Tours.

"We are honored to be in the Telstra Business Awards with so many other amazing businesses and to win our category was unbelievable." Said Alistair Lawson, Director of Great Ocean Road Surf Tours.  "We work so hard on delivering a professional and passionate experience and to be recognized for our efforts is fantastic."

Great Ocean Road Surf Tours won the Micro Business category for the passion they showed for their business, there professionalism and their commitment to ecotourism and sustainability.  They will now head to Sydney for the national awards which will be held on 22nd August.

Telstra Business Awards finalists 2013

Great Ocean Road Surf Tours have once again been recognized for their learn to surf tours and lessons through the Telstra Business Awards 2013.

The multi-award winning ecotourism company have wowed judges with their high levels of professionalism, customer service and business delivery to secure a finalist position in the high profile awards.

The winners will be announced in a gala dinner at the Crown in Melbourne on Tuesday 2nd July.

"We are thrilled to be recognized as finalists in the Telstra Business Awards 2013.  Owner Alistair Lawson said.  "It is a very prestigious award and all businesses involved are of a very high caliber."

Save the Children Ceduna Style

In May 2013 the Quiksilver Foundation wanted to put money into the Save the Children Australia program and aid unprivileged children in remote areas.  They wanted to run the Vegemite SurfGroms programs in a number of areas.  We at Great Ocean Road Surf Tours were asked to run a program in Ceduna, South Australia for 43 kids.

We travelled 2 days straight and ran a program for 2 days.  It was an amazing experience with half the kids being from the local Indigenous community everyone had a blast and hopefully they have learned a lot about surfing, beach safety and ocean awareness.

Hopefully we get to go back again next year and do it all over again!

100% Carbon Neutral by 2014

As a business that relies on the gifts of Mother Nature to inspire and enjoy. We would like our learn to surf surf school to be 100% carbon neutral by 2014. We use a carbon calculator to help work out our business emission on an ongoing basis to help monitor them. From this we have implemented ways of reducing our carbon footprint. By joining Carbon Neutral's planet a tree program to offset them we are bringing our surf tours down to be completely carbon neutral.
At this stage we have all our vehicles carbon neutral and plan to take the business to 100% by 2014.
For more information on Carbon Neutral visit their website www.carbonneutral.com.au

Stand Up Paddling

Great Ocean Road Surf Tours now offer beginner and intermediate Stand Up Paddle (SUP) lessons. Our flat water lessons are a great introduction to one if the fastest growing sports around. We teach you how to control your board and paddle as well as teaching some skills you will need to get you into the surf.
Learning the basics is very important for you to stay safe and surf well with others around you.

Great Ocean Road Surf Tours New Trees Project

Multi-award winning Great Ocean Road Surf Tours continue to raise the bar on their learn to surf business. We have just purchased over 100 trees to be planted for re vegetation areas. By aiding the Carbon Neutral project we are helping to decrease our own carbon footprint and aid a valuable cause.

We can breathe easy knowing we are doing our bit to help bring our business to a more environmentally friendly one.

Being Australia's first surf school to be certified under Ecotourism Australia, it is important for us to lead so others can follow.