Next month, The Sun-Herald presents an exclusive report on the best tourist spots in our state with the NSW Tourism Awards. Craig Tansley visited Kingscliff, a big winner last year, to find out what success meant to the area.

THE last stretch of the sand-mine-pocked coast between Kingscliff and Cabarita in northern NSW is being cleared to make way for an upmarket development that will house 2000 people.

Travel Associates has a tour to commemorate the 66th anniversary of the Siege of Tobruk on April 7, 2007. This 12-day tour will visit the war cemeteries at Tripoli, Tobruk, Acroma and El Alamein, where there will be a remembrance ceremony. Other highlights include a visit to Cairo and Giza..read more

The new Peppers Salt Resort at Kingscliff has joined Christmas-in-July celebrations with a show on July 22 and a $199 pp package covering a room, two tickets to the show, a two-course Christmas dinner and drinks. Call (02) 6674 7777.

The East Coast's latest tourism destination, the New Tweed Coast, has added more than 650 hotel rooms to its accommodation stock this year, with hundreds more to come on line by the end of next year.