Mayor Paul Harmon said the proposal had suggested an event to be held in either March or October.

“I hadn’t heard much about dragon boat racing before, but it’s extremely popular on the metropolitan areas and over on the coast,” Cr Harmon said.

“Quite a few years ago we had one of our staff meet with a sports marketing group and they spoke about sports tourism, and this has come about because of those activities quite a number of years ago.

“They’re even actually going to provide some boats as well, so people don’t have to bring their boats so far.” 

Cr Harmon said the event will bring good numbers of tourists into the area and now it is just a matter of which month it will be held in.