My Dream Holiday!

Australia's only island State, Tasmania is a land apart - a place of wild and beautiful landscapes; a temperate climate; the world's cleanest air, wonderful wine and food; and a relaxed island lifestyle.

Natural beauty is Tasmania's heart and soul. Meet wombats on a mountain stroll, see Tasmanian devils at a park and, around dusk watch penguins waddle up the beach. In Tasmania it's easy to get close to nature - more than 40 per cent of the island is national parks and reserves.

Tasmania's pristine environment brings forth the freshest seafood, the richest dairy products and the tastiest fruit. Pick your own strawberries at a fruit farm, shuck oysters straight from the sea or learn how the bees make honey.

Wilderness, heritage, art & culture, wine & food - they're waiting for you in Tasmania.

[Source: CTC Free & Easy - Discover Tasmania - Australia's Natural State. (n.d.). Retrieved March 26, 2010 from CTC Holidays website: http://www.ctc.com.sg/tour.php?tourcode=ATNS]

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I chose to go to Tasmania because I have never been to it before, and from the website, the scenery is beautiful and attractive to me. The pictures are nice too!

The criteria that I used for evaluating this travel website for my dream holiday are as follows:

- Purpose
- Authority
- Accuracy
- Currency
- Accessibility

Purpose

It is important to check out the purpose of the website. If it is just a parody of the places in Australia, and not a serious website, then I am on the wrong place. I would like a factual information of the place so that I will know what I will be expecting when I reached my dream destination.

Authority & Accuracy

We have to know who write the content. A page written by someone who has never even been to Australia is questionable, while reputable authors (or organizations) will most likely gain my trust and make the content more trustworthy. However, we also have to check the accuracy of the content as well, by checking for errors (in terms of language), and the source of information (whether it is gathered from another website or is original research). We also have to look out for biasness, like whether it is putting Australia in a bad spot, or just make Australia "too good to be true". Again, I would want to know what I will be expecting during my trip, and I will definitely not want to be disappointed by wrong information.

Currency

Places do change. It could be possible that one of the places mentioned might be hit by a disaster and gone forever, for example. Therefore, currency is important as development in the places change over the years, and going there may be different 10 years ago and 10 years later.

Accessibility

As I am only viewing on places where I wanted to go, I will definitely want to visit websites that showcase their trips to the public. Sites that requires registration to view them would only annoy me as my real aim of serving the website is to make a fruitful decision of where I want to go for my dream holiday, and the decision is not even final. So these informations should be free and useful.