Boggabri is known as the little town with a big heart but the Boggabri Drovers Campfire might soon be known as the little event with the big trophy cabinet.
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Drovers did it again at Moama on Saturday night by winning a gold award in the community festivals and events category at the 2016 Regional Tourism Awards.
The Awards, held for the 13th time on Saturday in the small town on the NSW side of the Murray River, are billed as the ‘night of nights’ for the regional tourism industry.
Drovers actually successfully defended the award it won last year at Broken Hill.
That victory saw it go on to qualify for the NSW Tourism Awards, where it also won its category, and that victory saw it got on to the Australian Tourism Awards, where Drovers won silver.
It was a vintage 2015-16 for the event, which also won the event and tourism category at the NSW/ACT Regional Achievement and Community Awards, the inland community festivals category at the Inland Tourism Awards and the judges award at the same contest.
Drovers co-founder Geoff Eather said he had lost count of how many awards Drovers had won since 2010, but Saturday was another great honour.
“Now we go down to Sydney for the state awards,” he said.
“It will be a very big ask to repeat last year, but we’ll see how we go.”
The NSW Tourism Awards will be held in Sydney in November.
