00:01the beach is pretty deserted now but not long ago people were all bunched together and they
00:07were trying to create the world's largest formation of a human banana and of course
00:13they're all wearing yellow now this is because Coffs Harbour's claim to fame is being the home
00:19of the big banana one of Australia's oldest big things it was built in 1964 to celebrate those
00:26banana plantations motorists generations of motorists have seen lining the Pacific Highway
00:32voting opened last night in the top tourism town awards and Coffs Harbour wants to be the top
00:39banana there are seven other contenders including Orange, Shell Harbour, Kiama and Ballina and Coffs
00:46Harbour really relies on tourism now banana growing less so tourism represents 907 million dollars each
00:54year and around 10 percent of the local workforce where agriculture forestry and fishing now numbers
01:01about 2.5 percent of the workforce just to show us how important tourism is to the location the
01:07city's general manager put on some special clothes today to share why they're competing for the top
01:13tourism award I don't think my team gave me a choice it was dropped on my desk and part of
01:18promoting the
01:19top tourism targeting for our town so if the team needs help I'll help I didn't quite realize I'd have
01:25to wear a bodysuit but all good fun it's part of promoting and getting our community to understand
01:29that they can influence who gets selected as the top tourism town so build up the volume on us
01:34tourism is a big industry for us and what better way than steering into the skid of the big banana
01:38and doing it the human form well there is a very good chance of it becoming a world record
01:43organizers counted more than 500 on early counts but they're also fairly confident because no one
01:50else has ever formed a human banana like theirs and they're hoping that this will put Coffs Harbour
01:58on the map as a family-friendly tourist destination full of nature and adventure holidays
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