Search help
Quick search
Use keywords to search for tourism listings and information pages across the site.
Product search
Select a category to help you find what you’re looking for. Choose from accommodation, attractions, events, tours, service and transport.
Search techniques
Be as specific as possible and make sure that your keywords aren’t too broad.
If your search returns too many results, try adding additional keywords or use the search summary. If your search returns too few results try reducing the number of keywords to broaden your search.
Make sure that your keywords are spelt correctly. There is an auto correct feature but it does not correct all spelling mistakes.
A combination of search terms (location, business/attraction, etc.) will generally give you the best results.
Search summary
To help you narrow your search the quick search gives you a search summary at the top of the results page.
The search summary breaks the results into number of accommodation, attractions, events, service, tours, transport and information pages.
You can go back to the original results by clicking on ‘View all’ at the top of the page.
Special characters
Special characters, with the exception of ‘*’, are stripped from your search request.
‘+’ and ‘&’ will be both replaced with ‘AND’.
‘parks + gardens’ will search for ‘parks and gardens’
‘parks & gardens’ will search for ‘parks and gardens’
Wildcard searching
The asterisk key (*) can be used as a wildcard to broaden your search.
‘* sports’ will search for water sports, outdoor sports, indoor sports, etc.
‘Bells *’ will search for bells beach, bells hotel, bells pottery, etc.
‘*otel’ will search for motel, hotel, etc.
‘hot*’ will search for hot, hotel, hotels, hotham etc
Word variants (stemming)
The search automatically includes stems or common variants of your search terms.
‘film’ will be automatically matched to film, films, filming, filmed, etc.
Case insensitive
The search is not case sensitive. All search terms will automatically be changed to lower case.
‘MeLbOuRne’ will be replaced with ‘melbourne’
Boolean search
Boolean is a method of searching using words or phrases combined by using the words AND, OR or NOT which is enabled on our search engine.
‘beach AND lifeguards’ will find all pages including both ‘beach’ and ‘lifeguards’
‘parks OR Gardens’ will find all pages that include either ‘parks’ or ‘gardens’ or both
‘water NOT beach' will find all pages that include ' water' but not 'beach'
Results per page
Choose how many search results are shown per page. The default is ten results per page but you can select up to 50.
There is a maximum of 500 results per search query.
