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Take advantage of these lastfew weeks of summer weather with a quick getaway to the sun-drenched beaches of the GoldCoast. Virgin Australia makes that easy by operating dailyflights to the Queensland hotspotfrom most Australian capital citiesincluding Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney. Despite its relatively small size and population, New Zealand is the number onesource of visitors to Australia and the most popular international destination for Australian travellers. The country's globalpopularity has also grown significantly over the past few years, as it has done an excellent job promoting all it has to offertravellers, including natural landscapes and gourmet food and wine.View original - 1188 word(s), ~6 min(s)

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Continuing interview with Jackie Trad, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure, Local ...26 Feb 2015 8:40 AMABC Gold Coast, Gold Coast, Mornings , Nicole Dyer

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Continuing interview with Jackie Trad, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure, Local Government Planning and Trade and DeputyPremier to talk about local issues. Trad talks about their election commitment on the construction of light railway system forQld. She explains that there will be people delegated to assess all major infrastructure projects in the state. She says she hada meeting last week with Warren Truss, Deputy Prime MInister to talk about Qld's intentions to pursue a light rail way down inthe Gold Coast to help make the Commonwealth Games successful. [cont]

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Jackie Trad, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure, Local Government Planning and Trade

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Jackie Trad, Transport Minister, Qld says she has talked about the extension of Gold ...26 Feb 2015 1:02 PMABC Gold Coast, Gold Coast, 13:00 News, Newsreader

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Jackie Trad, Transport Minister, Qld says she has talked about the extension of Gold Coast light railway line to Helensvalebefore the 2018 Commonwealth Games with her Federal counterpart. Trad says the Federal, State and Gold Coast CityCouncil need t o contribute funds for the project.

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Jackie Trad, Transport Minister, Qld

Member's of England's Commonwealth Games' governing body are currently in the Gold ...26 Feb 2015 2:02 PMHot Tomato, Gold Coast, 14:00 News, Newsreader


Member's of England's Commonwealth Games' governing body are currently in the Gold Coast and will be briefed on the 2018Games and continue planning for the event.

Mulgrew whisper for CBH - The West Australian26 Feb 2015 5:02 PMWest Australian

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Alan Mulgrew. Picture: Matt Jelonek/The West Australian.There is mounting speculation that grains co-operative CBH will appoint one-time Perth and Sydney airports boss and WATourism Commission chair Alan Mulgrew to its board as an independent...Read on source website

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Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk wants the city to launch a bid for the 2028 Olympic ...26 Feb 2015 5:05 PMChannel 9, Brisbane, Nine Afternoon News, Eva Milic

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Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk wants the city to launch a bid for the 2028 Olympic Games. Quirk says they've had asuccessful G20 since the last bid in 1992, and the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast will provide some infrastructure.The Australian Olympic Committee is supporting the city's interest. The Federal Government and Qld Government must offertheir support before a formal bid can be put forward.

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Daniel Gschwind,Qld Tourism Industry Council|Fiona de Jong, Australian Olympic Committee |Graham Quirk,Brisbane Lord Mayor

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Interview with Natalie Cook, President, Qld Olympic Council, about the idea of Brisbane ...26 Feb 2015 5:10 PM4BC, Brisbane, Drive, Ben Davis

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Interview with Natalie Cook, President, Qld Olympic Council, about the idea of Brisbane hosting the 2028 Olympics. Cook saysshe thinks it would be a great event for the region, but Davis mentions a listener has argued Brisbane does not have theinfrastructure to host the Games. Cook says that's changing with the Commonwealth Games coming to the Gold Coast and theIOC has been more supportive of multiple cities hosting the Games. Davis asks if Cook would put a stadium where the[Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre] is now and Cook says the real issue is where an Olympic Village would go. She alsotalks about what makes for a successful hosting of the Olympic Games and says the event could inspire kids to become moreactive, mentioning the current obesity crisis. Davis says another listener has stated he thinks the glory of the Olympics haspeaked, but Cook disagrees.

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Natalie Cook, President, Qld Olympic Council

The English Commonwealth Games Association is impressed with preparations on the ...26 Feb 2015 5:32 PMABC Gold Coast, Gold Coast, 17:30 News, Newsreader


The English Commonwealth Games Association is impressed with preparations on the Gold Coast for the 2018 Games. DonParker, Sports Director, notes facilities on the Gold Coast are outstanding.

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Don Parker, Sports Director, Commonwealth Games Association

Leading England sports bosses have described the Gold Coast's 2018 venues as ...26 Feb 2015 5:35 PMChannel 9 Gold Coast, Gold Coast North, Gold Coast News, Bruce Paige

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Leading England sports bosses have described the Gold Coast's 2018 venues as outstanding. They toured Southport AquaticCentre today, comparing it to what they saw at the Manchester Commonwealth Games 13 years. They will also inspectMetricon and Cbus Stadiums.

Interviewees

Don Parker, England Commonwealth Games Sports Director

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Cairns Airport management says negotiations are underway with Qld and Local ...26 Feb 2015 7:04 PMWIN Cairns, Cairns, WIN News, Paul Taylor

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Cairns Airport management says negotiations are underway with Qld and Local Governments to find a solution for AirportAvenue safety concerns.

England eyes bowls club as Games HQ27 Feb 2015Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD, General News, Lexie Cartwright

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ENGLAND wants to make the Southport Bowls Club its home for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. The heads of theCommonwealth Games Association of England are negotiating to take over most of the facility which was established in 1914,and the city's oldest bowls club.View original - 312 word(s), ~1 min(s)

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We have it over Cairns27 Feb 2015Townsville Bulletin, Townsville QLD, General News

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IN REGARD to Steven Isles' letter (Bulletin 26/02/15) calling for cooperation with Cairns regarding tourism, he is dead rightthere are things Cairns has that Townsville doesn't have and I hope never does. Last time we were in Cairns was the middle oflast year when we visited the city while on an outbound cruise ship, and because of the size of the ship we had to come in viaship's tender to Yorkeys Knob.View original - 562 word(s), ~3 min(s)

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Events require funding27 Feb 2015Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD, General News, Paul Weston

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THE Gold Coast is backing a surf tourism wave to ensure Holy Grail events like the Quiksilver and Roxy Pros stay at SnapperRocks. A new report to city hall urges Gold Coast City councillors to sign off on doubling the amount of funding for the worldchampionship events to ensure they are not lost to Snapper Rocks.View original - 366 word(s), ~2 min(s)

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Airport makes top 1027 Feb 2015Bowen Independent, Bowen QLD, General News

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THE Federal Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development has released its 2014 annual report for Airline On TimePerformance, with Whitsunday Coast Airport making the top 10 airports in Australia for both on time arrivals and departures.Whitsunday Regional Council Mayor Jennifer Whitney said 88.3 per cent of departing flights and 90.8 per cent of flight arrivalswere on time at Whitsunday Coast Airport last year.View original - 213 word(s), ~1 min(s)

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Tourism off to a busy start27 Feb 2015Bowen Independent, Bowen QLD, General News, Paul McLaughlin

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BOWEN Tourism and Business has started another busy year. On the marketing side, we have attended the MelbourneCaravan and Camping expo and received wonderful feedback about our region. Hopefully the money we have spent attendingthis event will be paid back many times with the grey nomads filling our caravan parks this winter. We have also run acampaign in Airlie Beach to attract day visits and weekend stays for the short drive market.View original - 322 word(s), ~1 min(s)

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Our Bollywood night all set for takeoff27 Feb 2015Townsville Bulletin, Townsville QLD, General News, Rachel Afflick

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NEWLYWED actors Madeleine Dyer and Daniel Mulvihill have returned to Townsville for the world first screening of DepartureLounge: A Bollywood Affair. Shot at Townsville Airport last year and featuring about 100 cast and crew, the film will be unveiledfor the first time at Event Cinemas tonight.View original - 215 word(s), ~1 min(s)

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Collaboration is key, so join us in our video promo drive27 Feb 2015Sunshine Coast Daily, Maroochydore QLD, General News, Simon Ambrose

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SUCCESSFUL tourism is built upon collaboration and partnerships. Sunshine Coast Destination's partnerships deliver awhole-of-region program for the tourism industry and include, but are not limited to, work with Tourism Australia, Tourism andEvents Queensland, Sunshine Coast Airport, our members and representation across three council areas Sunshine Coast,Gympie and Noosa.View original - 432 word(s), ~2 min(s)

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Open airports, charge for national parks: report27 Feb 2015Australian Financial Review, Australia, General News, Mark Ludlow

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Restrictions on secondary airports should be lifted and more user fees for national parks should be considered as a way tokick-start the tourism industry, the Productivity Commission has found. While the number of international visitors to Australiaincreased from 2.5 million in 1992 to almost 6.7 million in 2014, some tourist hotspots such as north Queensland have sufferedfrom restricted access and tired, ageing infrastructure.View original - 331 word(s), ~1 min(s)

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RACE WITH A HUMBLE START BUT BIG FINISH27 Feb 2015Courier Mail, Brisbane, Supplement 1, Glen Norris

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IT started over a few beers in a London pub and went on to become one of the most successful sporting events ever. Thebrainchild of international track star Lord Sebastian Coe, the 2012 London Olympics pumped billions into the British economy.View original - 332 word(s), ~1 min(s)

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The English Commonwealth Games Association expressed its confidence that their ...27 Feb 2015 6:32 AMABC Gold Coast, Gold Coast, 06:30 News, Newsreader


The English Commonwealth Games Association expressed its confidence that their swimmers will easily adjust on competingto an outdoor pool on the Gold Coast.

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Don Parker, Sports Director

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Get closer to fashion at Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival, be inspired by a slcy-highmentoring session for Indigenous kids and stay up-to-date with ABC news bulletins on board.

FUN IN THE SUNTake advantage of these last few weeksof summer weather with a quick getawayto the sun-drenched beaches of the GoldCoast. Virgin Australia makes that easy byoperating daily flights to the Queenslandhotspotfrom most Australian capital citiesincluding Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney.

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Despite its relatively small size andpopulation, New Zealand is thenumber one source of visitors toAustralia and the most popularinternational destination forAustralian travellers. The country'sglobal popularity has also grownsignificantly over the past few years,as it has done an excellent jobpromoting all it has to offer travellers,including natural landscapes andgourmet food and wine.

Naturally, New Zealand is a veryimportant focus for Virgin Australia,with the majority of our internationalservices flying between Australia andNew Zealand.

From this month, our award-winning Business Class will be rolledout on Virgin Australia services toNew Zealand and the Pacific Islands,offering an enhanced premiumexperience for business and leisuretravellers. Importantly, it also allowsus to deliver a more consistentcustomer experience in conjunctionwith our alliance partner Air NewZealand, which also offers BusinessClass across the Tasman.

Our alliance with Air New Zealandhas gone from strength to strengthsince it was launched in 2011 andtogether we now offer an extensivenetwork of 47 destinations inAustralia and 25 in New Zealand,making travelling across theTasman easier than ever.

Thank you for choosing to travelwith us today. We look forward towelcoming you on board again soon.

FLIGHT OF IDEASOn board a Virgin Australia aircraft.Indigenous students had the experienceof a lifetime and learned to AIME high.

A group of talented Indigenous high-schoolstudents received a mentoring experiencewith a difference late last year... it took place30,000 feet in the air above Sydney.

The sky-high session was an integralcomponent of Virgin Australia's partnershipwith the Australian Indigenous MentoringExperience (AIME). AIME's main work issupporting Indigenous students through highschool and on to higher education or theworkforce at the same rate as their peers.

The group, from years 9 and 10, who camefrom towns such as Ballarat, Yeppoon andIpswich, earned their place on the flightthrough AIME's Got Game talent competition.

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AIME's CEO Jack Manning Bancroft saidthe session was another example of theorganisation's powerful partnership withVirgin Australia. "It was a shining exampleof how, together, we are helping youngIndigenous Australians realise their dreams.On the day they learned to literally reach forthe sky, and that anything is possible."

Virgin Australia's group executive, DanielleKeighery, who was on the flight,said the company remainspassionate about supporting thenext generation of Australians."Our partnership with AIME hashelped them reach more than3500 students in 2014 alone."

VA crew volunteered their timefor the session, and the flightwas captained by Indigenous pilotKali Bellear. Shell donated fuel,Sydney Airport waived landingfee charges and Gate Gourmetprovided the onboard catering.

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GET CLOSE TO FASHIONWorld-class fashion is in store fornext month's Virgin AustraliaMelbourne Fashion Festival.

The Virgin Australia Melbourne FashionFestival is on its way again, running acrosstwo weekends from 14-22 March.

The annual event presents world-classrunway shows featuring established andemerging designers, industry seminars,forums, live entertainment and much more.

With the list of designers just announced,you can get close to Camilla and Marc, Bassike,Scanlan Theodore, Josh Goot, Romance wasBorn, Dion Lee, Camilla, and Ginger & Smart.

Virgin Australia's group executive DanielleKeighery says the company is proud tocelebrate local design. "And this year we willbe taking fashion-lovers from one runway toanother with our exclusive packages, offeringa money-can't-buy experience."

VA Holidays has packaged together festivaltickets, flights, accommodation and a shoppingexperience to make it easy to book and go.

AS EASY AS ABCThe country's most trusted newsservice extends its onboard offering.

Virgin Australia passengers will have exclusiveaccess to ABC news bulletins on all domesticand international flights from early this year.

Passengers travelling on Virgin Australia'sBoeing 737 and Embraer 190 fleet, whichservice more than 33 destinations nationally,will be able to stream dedicated daily ABCnews updates direct to their own devices.

The exclusive content, made up of fourseparate 90-second news bulletins, will be

Virgin Australia will also be launchingFashion Channel in the skies. Full ofpremium fashion content, you can watchrunway shows from your seat and get aninsight into the creative minds of designers.Visitwww.virginaustralia.com.au/vamff.

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Launching the innovative partnership,Virgin Australia's chief customer officer MarkHassell said the company was delighted to beoffering passengers the most comprehensiveand reputable news service in the country.

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Robert Patterson, director of ABCCommercial, said of the partnership: "Iam thrilled that we are to offer such a greatnews service, along with the variety of ABCcomedy, drama and children's programming,to travellers on Virgin Australia flights."

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MantraGroupBOB EAST MANTRAChief Executive Officer

Mantra Group

SNAPSHOT: MANTRA GROUP

Number of hotels & rooms (Asia-Pacific):

116 hotels / over 11000 rooms

Number of employees: 4000

Year first hotel opened: 1984

Year the company was founded:2009 as Mantra Group

Brands in the organisation:

Peppers, Mantra and BreakFree

Head office location:

Gold Coast, Australia

2015 is shaping up to be a positive year for the accommodation sector. Whilst theeconomy is not at full strength we expect continued improvement in the corporatesector and the discretionary leisure sector continues apace. We are yet to understandthe impact of the oil price reduction but it should be net positive for Australia. Theemployment rate should continue to grow and rates should remain low. These settingauger well for our sector.

Inbound is very strong at the moment and this should continue also. As an industrywe now receive more visitors (inbound) than we send offshore (outbound). If we overlayall of these factors it augers well for our sector.

Leisure and corporate should both continue to grow in 2015. The MICE market isless resilient and whilst we see some improvement across the board for certain industriesit remains to be seen if this new demand will fill the void of the reduced demand fromthe resource sector.

The major challenges at present include:• Inbound competitiveness. Our neighbours have realised the potential of the

emerging markets (particularly Asia) and they have positioned themselves well tomaximise the opportunity. Australia boasts the right ingredients to be appealing to theAsia and Middle East markets in particular. However we haven't improved our policysettings and marketing expenditure fast enough to maintain the lead. As such wenow find ourselves catching up. The positive numbers from Asia somewhat mask thelost potential income we might attract if we have better Visa processes and increasedfunding for marketing.

• Air Access. With the proliferation of Low Cost Carriers and air capacity we mustfind ways to open our access to the world.

• Infra-structure. With both federal and state governments now actively seeking Infra-structure spending initiatives it's important we deliver transport and major tourismdevelopments.

• Industrial Relations. This topic seems to be avoided by successive governments.The industry understands the need for pragmatic reform to make our industry moreflexible and competitive. We must continue to agitate for reform. Our team members,guests and industry stakeholders all stand to benefit.

China is still at the forefront in terms of inbound tourism markets and I believe wecan do more to position ourselves with this market. Visa reform and tourism fundingare critical. China is our largest market by expenditure and the growth potential isastounding. India has potential as a market but it is less mature and we require directflights before we can capitalise on this opportunity. Indonesia is probably the market withthe greatest potential coming from a low base. The Indonesian travelling consumer isgrowing enormously and the tourism industry is doing all it can to harness the potentialfrom this market - including to continually lobby for changes to visa restrictions. ForMantra Group, the Indonesian market is particularly important as we grow in this region,with the emerging middle class in Indonesia definitely an exciting new opportunity.

Continual network growth from low-cost carriers is proving greatly beneficial forregional tourism on the domestic front. I was also pleased to see the Cairns-Bali routeintroduced by Jetstar which will open up reciprocal benefits to those regions.

Mantra Group will continue to focus on quality developments and acquisitions inIndonesia. On the domestic front I'd like to see more Peppers CBD product, but againthe development has to be the right fit.

2014 marked a major milestone with Mantra Group's listing on the ASX which hasprovided us with an opportunity to see some excellent development opportunities cometo fruition.

A record eight properties joined the Mantra Group network in FY2014 includingMantra Frangipani Broome, BreakFree Long Island, Soul Surfers Paradise, BreakFreeFortitude Valley, Peppers Sentosa Seminyak, Mantra Wollongong, Mantra on the QuayBrisbane and Mantra St Kilda Road Melbourne.

New properties to have joined the Group in FY15 to date include Peppers GalleryHotel Canberra, three Brisbane properties - Mantra Terrace Hotel, Mantra on Edwardand Mantra Midtown Apartments - and BreakFree on Clarence in Sydney.

Future pipeline growth, at this stage, includes the acquisition of the Bell City Hoteland Conference Centre in greater Melbourne (January 2015) which will wear theMantra and BreakFree brands; a new Mantra hotel in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley (late2015), a new build Mantra hotel in Townsville (2016), a new build Peppers hotel inMelbourne's Docklands precinct (2016), a new build Mantra hotel in Bali (2015) and anew build Peppers hotel in Perth (2015).

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England eyesbowls club as Games HQLEXIE CARTWRIGHT

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ENGLAND wants to make theSouthport Bowls Club its homefor the 2018 CommonwealthGames.

The heads of the Common-wealth Games Association ofEngland are negotiating totake over most of the facilitywhich was established in 1914,and the city’s oldest bowls club.

Chris Brace, house directorat the Southport Bowls Club,said the CGA England teamhad visited for the second timeyesterday and was confident adeal would be made.

“It will be a substantial fi-nancial gain for us,” Mr Bracesaid. “We’re all incredibly ex-cited about it.

“From what we understandthey want to take up aboutseven-eighths of the club, sowe will still be operating. It willbe the home base for their en-tire Games team.”

Councillor Dawn Crichlowsaid it was a great coup forSouthport.

“Executives would have allof their meetings there andathletes would regularly be in,”Cr Crichlow said.

“It’s a very exciting time forSouthport. The bowls club willbe their venue weeks beforethe Commonwealth Games sothey’ll be around for a while.”

News of the England nego-tiations comes a day after Bris-bane Mayor Graham Quirksaid he would discuss a jointBrisbane, Gold and Sunshinecoasts bid for the 2028 Olym-pic Games at a Council ofMayors (SEQ) meeting onMarch 6.

Sports director for Com-

monwealth Games EnglandDon Parker, on the Gold Coastthis week with the CGA En-gland committee, said theCoast was a regional city thathe felt could handle the heat.

Mr Parker said he had beenblown away by the facilities onthe Gold Coast for the 2018Commonwealth Games andthat Metricon Stadium at Car-rara was the best option for theopening and closing ceremon-ies.

“I think what’s really excit-ing for the Commonwealthmovement is that the GoldCoast has a population ofabout 400,000 people and fora regional city to host theCommonwealth Games is a bigstep,” Mr Parker said.

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27 Feb 2015Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD

Author: Lexie Cartwright • Section: General News • Article type : News Item • Audience : 27,386Page: 11 • Printed Size: 125.00cm² • Market: QLD • Country: Australia • ASR: AUD 789Words: 312 • Item ID: 377577847


We have it over Cairns IN REGARD to Steven Isles’ letter(Bulletin 26/02/15) calling for co-operation with Cairns regardingtourism, he is dead right there arethings Cairns has that Townsvilledoesn’t have and I hope neverdoes.

Last time we were in Cairns wasthe middle of last year when wevisited the city while on an out-bound cruise ship, and because ofthe size of the ship we had to comein via ship’s tender to YorkeysKnob.

Bit of a rough trip, althoughgoing back to the ship was madequite pleasant as we waited in theclub near the pick-up point andsampled some fine Queenslandales, so felt no pain at all on the re-turn. The city did look a bit untidyand bleak, but it was a Monday soperhaps debris from the weekendwas still being cleaned up.

Nothing too out there so far,every trip has something to talkabout, all was handled quite ad-mirably with the worst result a fewwet tourists from sea spray.

The one thing that I always findirksome in Cairns is the Japaneselanguage everywhere in the city,on street signs, in shops and thelike. OK, I can hear the multitudessaying of course they do with all

the Japanese tourists they get – it’sto be expected.

I don’t agree. That may havebeen useful in years gone by whenCairns inbound tourism was goinggangbusters and every secondtourist was from Japan, but I donot believe the numbers fromJapan are anything like what theywere in years past.

Japan also has grown so muchthat many Japanese speak Englishas a second language, so is this sys-tem really necessary?

It’s not something needed onour street signs and shops. Towns-ville has plenty of two-legged in-

formation stations who do a greatjob.

One other thing that we have issomething that many placeswould love to have – our people,they are our greatest assets.

Never in all our travels in mostcountries overseas and in all statesof Australia have we met suchfriendly, generous people as wehave locally.

Steven Isles has some verygood points, revisiting the saltwa-ter chlorination of the rock pool isa no-brainer and should be lookedat by Council.

The Strand is something that is

unique to Townsville and must benot only used to its full potential,but also nurtured and protected –a difficult balancing act but oneCouncil seems to have a hold on.

Perhaps a yearly air show alongThe Strand could be looked at,possibly near or after the V8s – oreven part of the V8s.

A vintage/sports show andshine car rally ending up with aStrand picnic could be a viableevent, there are many such poss-ibilities to explore.

One of the things that influ-enced me to move up here a tadover 10 years ago was the people,their resilience, friendly manner,and amazing generosity which isshown in small and large waystime and time again.

A good example recently was afundraiser held at the BellevueHotel for the wife of the ex-publi-can who is battling cancer.

Not only was a fair amount ofmoney raised on the day, but theband booked for the day also per-formed free of charge. This eventis a perfect example of how smallthings go on day by day that typifyour city’s magnificent attitude toothers.

DENIS MAY,Bushland Beach.

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27 Feb 2015Townsville Bulletin, Townsville QLD

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EventsrequirefundingPAUL [email protected]

THE Gold Coast is backing asurf tourism wave to ensureHoly Grail events like theQuiksilver and Roxy Pros stayat Snapper Rocks.

A new report to city hallurges Gold Coast City council-lors to sign off on doubling theamount of funding for theworld championship events toensure they are not lost toSnapper Rocks.

Councillors will be given areport card that shows the twinevents, due to start the WorldSurf League series tomorrow,give a $20 million economicand promotional boost for thecity.

New events like the Nation-al Standup Paddleboard titles,staged at Currumbin since2013, will also receive morefunding given its digital audi-ence views top more than onemillion.

But older annual promo-tions like the Surfers ParadiseFestival, which is seeking$50,000 in funding, will obtainonly $10,000 with organisersrequired to provide a “road

map” on how it can become amajor event.

A post-event report esti-mates that the direct economicimpact for the Coast from the2014 Quiksilver and Roxy Prowas more than $7.2 million.

The Association of SurfProfessionals had generatedan estimated $10 million inmedia benefits from the Coastevent with a 927 per cent in-crease in “unique fans” and

489 per cent lift in “registeredfans” on their digital site in thepast 12 months.

Council officers warn thatTourism Events Queenslandhas been negotiating withevent organisers about govern-ment support and “a signifi-cant increase” was needed toretain it.

“An additional contributionfrom council is likely to con-tinue to secure the event forthe city, up to some $100,000,”the report said.

Council community andcultural development commit-tee chairman Bob La Castraconfirmed councillors wouldbe asked to double the fundingfor the Quiksilver and RoxyPros and the National Stand-

up Paddleboard titles.Cr La Castra said more

funding was required to ensurethe Quiksilver and Roxy Proremained on the Coast’s south-ern end. “Obviously it is a goodevent. We want to keep hold ofit. It has to come back to coun-cil (for a vote). There is still abit of negotiation and talks tobe done.’’

SURFING THE WEBSee our special online

feature including exclusive interviews

with Mick Fanning and Wayne ‘Rabbit’

Bartholomew at goldcoastbulletin.com.au

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27 Feb 2015Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD

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Airportmakestop 10THE Federal Department of In-frastructure and Regional De-velopment has released its 2014 annual report for Airline On Time Performance, with Whit-sunday Coast Airport making the top 10 airports in Australia for both on time arrivals and de-partures.

Whitsunday Regional Coun-cil Mayor Jennifer Whitney said 88.3 per cent of departing flights and 90.8 per cent of flight arriv-als were on time at Whitsunday Coast Airport last year.

“This is a fantastic achieve-ment for Whitsunday Coast Air-port, especially given the growth in passenger numbers the air-port experienced last year and given a new airline partner and route was introduced,” she said.

“Whitsunday Coast Airportwas eighth for on-time arrivals and ninth for on-time depar-tures out of all Australian air-ports in 2014.

“During this same period wesaw passenger numbers increaseby 13.7 per cent seeing nearly 265,000 passengers pass through the airport.

“In April last year the newroute between Whitsunday Coast Airport and Sydney was also introduced with direct Tigerflights.

“Congratulations must go toour airline partners, ground crew and airport staff for all theirhard work during the airports best year on record.

“We anticipate passengernumbers will be even better this year with continued growth in all the current routes and the in-troduction of direct flights to Melbourne starting from June 2015.”

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27 Feb 2015Bowen Independent, Bowen QLD

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Tourism off to a busy start

Bowen Tourism and Business chairman

PAULMCLAUGHLIN

BOWEN Tourism and Business has started another busy year. On the mar-keting side, we have attended the Mel-bourne Caravan and Camping expoand received wonderful feedback about our region. Hopefully the money we have spent attending this event will be paid back many times with the grey no-mads filling our caravan parks this win-ter.

We have also run a campaign in Air-lie Beach to attract day visits and week-end stays for the short drive market. This is being followed up with a larger campaign focused on Townsville. We are working with Whitsundays Market-ing and Development on this program in Townsville. Bowen Tourism and Business has taken out Tier one adver-tising spots as part of this campaign which will run for the month of March. This includes print and radio media, let-ter drops and social media. We will alsobe setting up a display stand at a trade event on the 13th of March followed by a day at the Townsville defence bar-racks on the 14th March. We will show-case Bowen as the closest drive holiday to Townsville and we will be using our tag line of being “Top of the Whitsun-days”.

In other projects, Bowen Tourism and Business will be launching its new Mango Mascot in the near future with all members having access to a Mango character that suits their business. Our objective is to “mangoize Bowen”. We received so much publicity from Man-gogate, Bowen is world famous for our Mango, so we need to capitalise on this.You will see a heap of new mango char-acters getting about Bowen in the com-ing months. We also hope to get the Little Mango installed at the Front Beach to coincide with this release.

In other news, we have kicked off planning meetings for the offshore su-perboats which we are running in July

and also the Gem of the Coral Coast festival which will be held again thisyear in October.

Stayed tuned for more informationon these projects.

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27 Feb 2015Bowen Independent, Bowen QLD

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RACHEL AFFLICK

NEWLYWED actors Madeleine Dyerand Daniel Mulvihill have returned toTownsville for the world first screeningof Departure Lounge: A Bollywood Affair.

Shot at Townsville Airport last yearand featuring about 100 cast and crew,the film will be unveiled for the first timeat Event Cinemas tonight.

Producer Bill Leimbach, who madethe hit World War I story Beneath Hill 60

in the North in 2009, said the film’s finalcut had been kept under wraps with thecast and crew looking forward totonight’s event with anticipation.

“The final product is fantastic,”Mr Leimbach said. “It’s a 20-minutecomedy about a fly-in fly-out couplewhose romance is frustrated by onlymeeting in the departure lounge.”

Townsville Airport doubled as a Bol-lywood movie set in August and Sep-tember last year for the shooting of the

film, which also drew heavily on localtalent, including Townsville dancegroups and actors.

Mr Leimbach, who collaborated onthe film with Townsville producer RossThomas, said it was now entered in filmfestivals around the world.

The films screens tonight from 6pmand will be followed by the ShamitabhIndian feature film at 7pm.

Tickets are still available from EventCinemas at eventcinemas.com.au

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premiere. Picture: ZAK SIMMONDS

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Collaboration is key, so join us in our video promo drive

TALKINGTOURISMSimon AmbroseSUCCESSFUL tourism isbuilt upon collaboration andpartnerships.Sunshine Coast Destina-tion’s partnerships deliver awhole-of-region program forthe tourism industry andinclude, but are not limitedto, work with TourismAustralia, Tourism andEvents Queensland, Sun-shine Coast Airport, ourmembers and representa-tion across three councilareas – Sunshine Coast,Gympie and Noosa.Over the past week, wehave met hundreds of pro-fessional conference organ-isers at the Asia-PacificIncentives and MeetingsExpo, escorted Leigh Arre-

dondo – Tourism and EventsQueensland internationaldirector for Americathroughout the region, andwelcomed the AustralianTourism Export Council tothe Sunshine Coast for aboard meeting.

This provided an oppor-tunity for the board to gaina first-hand appreciation ofthe Sunshine Coast as aninternational tourism desti-nation.Reinforcing this work, thefirst Tourism in Local Go-vernment Areas survey wasreleased earlier this weekand shows the SunshineCoast is proving itself amagnet for international

visitors, recording an aver-age stay of 13.4 nights pervisit.The survey was conduct-ed by Tourism ResearchAustralia and is based onfour years of figures for theSunshine Coast, Noosa andGympie council areas.

This research streng-thens the work of our bodyas we concentrate on show-casing a broad range ofproduct across the entireregion, and we will build onthat by launching the GreatBeach Drive in April, inassociation with Australia’sNature Coast.This will be a huge attrac-

tion in the internationalmarket because it will offerthe best of the Gympie,Noosa and Sunshine Coast’scoastal experiences in oneintegrated product.This is a great example of

working in collaboration tomarket the region as one.Advertisements for The

Vacation Migration cam-

paign, launched nationallylast October, have been seenby six million Australiansincluding 120,000 onlineviews.The next stage of thecampaign is a local activ-ation and we are proud tobe supported by ambassa-dors Caroline Hutchinson,of Mix FM, Sunshine CoastMayor Mark Jamieson andthe Sunshine Coast Dailyeditor-in-chief Jenna Cair-ney as they get behind thisinitiative.But we also need yourhelp by creating a video atyour favourite spot on theCoast and nominating some-one from anywhere in theworld to visit.

All you need to do is filmyourself and state who younominate. Upload the video

to your Facebook page,setting the video to publicview and applying the hash-tag #vacationmigration.A judging panel will se-lect the best video and thenominated person will win aSunshine Coast holidayincluding four economyflights and seven nightsaccommodation.The competition closes at5pm on Friday, March 20.For more information goto www.visitsunshine-coast.com.au/nomination■ Simon Ambrose is CEO ofSunshine Coast DestinationLtd (SCDL).

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27 Feb 2015Sunshine Coast Daily, Maroochydore QLD

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Open airports, charge for national parks: reportTourismMarkLudlow

Restrictions on secondary airportsshould be lifted and more user fees fornational parks should be considered asa way to kick-start the tourismindustry, the Productivity Commissionhas found.

While the number of internationalvisitors to Australia increased from 2.5million in 1992 to almost 6.7 million in2014, some tourist hotspots such as

north Queensland have suffered fromrestricted access and tired, ageinginfrastructure.

The report found Australia neededto lift its game to be able to competewith the emerging markets in Indiaand China, and to achieve a greaterslice of the global visitor market

The Productivity Commission hasrecommended a further liberalisationof access to Australia's secondaryairports to help clear the way for moreinternational visitors.

It said it did not make sense that

there were access restrictions atAvalon Airport in Victoria and theproposed airport at Badgerys Creek,west of Sydney, but not the Gold Coastand Sunshine Coast airports in Queens-land.

"The commission thinks there isvery little leverage to be gained in inter-national negotiations from restrictingaccess to any Australian airport, withperhaps the exception of Sydney'sKingsford Smith Airport, and theregional package could be extendedaccordingly," the report said.

In its most controversial recom-mendation, the Productivity Commis-sion said cash-strapped stategovernments could charge access feesfor entry to national parks to help boostsub-standard infrastructure andprovide a better experience for visitors.

Access fees are already used by somestate governments, including NSW andTasmania, and would be more suited toheavily visited national parks, thecommission found. It suggested theycould be used for car parks or campinggrounds.

"Given the persistent funding con-straints on parks agencies to constructand maintain infrastructure withinnational parks, there would likely bebenefits from governments reviewingtheir fee structures for national parks,while considering social equity object-ives," it said.

In a move which would inflameenvironmentalists, the commissionhas flagged greater private sectorinvestment in national parks toimprove tourist experiences, withoutthreatening environmental values.

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27 Feb 2015Australian Financial Review, Australia

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GLEN NORRIS

RACE WITHAAA HUMBLE STATT RT BUTRRBIG FINISH

I t started over a few beers in aLondon pub and went on tobecome one of the most successful sporting events ever.

The brainchild of international track star Lord Sebastian Coe, the 2012 London Olympics pumped billions into the British economy.

It also was the highlight of Coe’sextraordinary career that saw him go from a humble, working class lad to world-class athlete and leading international sports administrator.

Coe, guest speaker the QUT Business Leaders’ Forum on February 9m ,says the decision to bid for the Gameswas not made in a boardroomsurrounded by high-flying executives.

“I was sitting in a pub in West London with International OlympicCommittee member Craig Reedie and we thought, why don’t we go for it,”Coe says. “That began an extraordinary journey.”

Up against New York and Paris, theLondon bid was considered a long shot.

But the athlete’s approach to life, sport and business had always been

GAME CHANGER: Sebastian Coe speaksat the QUT Business Leaders Forum.

that you sometimes have to risk failurein order to succeed. The Olympic Gold medallist remembers the shock of losing a big race early in his career andhow that forced him to reconsider histraining and running methods.

“It was a seismic moment of my lifeand every day I thank God that I did not win that race because it meant I would not have challenged the orthodoxy.

“I took that into the delivery of theGames. You have to be bold andchallenge orthodoxy. ”

Coe concedes that much of thesuccess of the London Olympics reliedon the example set by the Sydney Games in 2000.

“I am a fully paid up fan of everything to do with Australiansport,” he says.

Coe says he has met with organisersof the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast and was impressedwith the efforts made to include thecommunity in the event.

He says the Commonwealth Gamesis still a top-notch sporting event and one of the few events that bringsCommonwealth nations together.

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27 Feb 2015Courier Mail, Brisbane

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