For those of you who don't pour through every Tasmanian Government announcement and news article, you may have missed the article by Jessica Howard in the Mercury on January 17 announcing that the Tasmanian Government is going to release a new MTB Strategy this year to capture Tasmania's growing reputation as a mountain biking hotspot.

This commitment seems to have morphed from writing a new MTB Strategy to developing a draft Tasmanian Cycle Tourism Strategy in the Premier's recently released Plan for a Brighter Future - Agenda 2016 which states that the draft plan will be released in the July to September quarter, 2016.

This is an area I'm very interested in, having recently completed a University assignment of the 2009 Mountain Bike Plan, so I'm looking forward to seeing what comes out of this new plan, and hoping that unlike the last MTB Plan, the right resources and support is put in place to support it.