Gold Coast Tourism Slides: Study

Olympic icon Ron Clarke recently warned local authorities to learn from the Gold Coast experience and keep high-rise buildings off Port Melbourne beaches. Clarke, who owns a resort on South Stradbroke Island, just north of the coast, said: ``As soon as you put high rises on the beach you lose par

`tacky' Gold Coast Loses Its Holiday Lustre

The Gold Coast is tacky and too "touristy" and spoiled by shade from high-rise buildings, as far as visitors in Sydney and Melbourne are concerned. Domestic tourism on the Gold Coast is in the doldrums and continuing to slacken as more people from NSW and Victoria choose to holiday in t