Narooma Oyster Festival – 2024 Outcomes
The 2024 Narooma Oyster Festival Outcomes provides a comprehensive summary of the festival’s success, including key highlights, demographics and drivers for visitors along with the oyster and food and beverage industries.
It also reports on the significant economic and marketing impact on the local community and region. It showcases the festival’s engagement with, and promotion of the NSW oyster industry, along with community engagement, partnerships and sponsorship.
Attendance
More than 8,700 people attended the festival - 86% were from outside the Narooma region, drawn primarily from Sydney, Canberra and Illawarra
Oysters
63,000 oysters were consumed in 12.5 hours and our Zero Hero Volunteers saved 1.02 tonnes of oyster shells from landfil
Economic
$4,048,540 was injected into the local economy with a Value Add of $2,067,320 and the creation of 29 FTE jobs
Records
We broke the world record for the heaviest oyster (our winner 'Jill' weighed in at 3.02kg) which was syndicated nationally by ABC and ABC News 24
