The Gold coastline will continue as a focal point for major worldwide sporting as well as business events as the tradition of the commonwealth games continues to take shape.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk stated GC2018 had reinforced the Gold Coast’s reputation as a world-class event host:
There is an interesting line up of events arranged for the Gold coastline over the rest of the year, because of draw in numerous countless visitors as well as continue to stimulate the regional economy.
We expect a boost from a broad spread of events attractive to a variety of sports fans, with prospective new markets opening up now that residents of Brisbane as well as other surrounding regions have experienced what the Gold coastline has to offer.
Off the back of the sell-out success of the GC2018 Rugby 7’s, we expect a big crowd when the Wallabies play Argentina at CBUS stadium in September.
The yard bowls was one more standout success of the Games, as well as organisers of the Australian open Bowls event at Broadbeach in June have prolonged the entry deadline to cater for increased demand.
Of course, big-name events like the Gold coastline Marathon will continue to draw in tens of countless participants from around the globe, as well as being the 40th anniversary of the event this year makes it even more special.
Also locked in for 2018 are the Gymnastics national Club Carnival, pan Pacific Masters Games, Coolangatta Gold as well as UniSport Nationals division 1 as well as 2 (the very first edition of the new style of the university Games) – all mass involvement events expected to bring countless competitors as well as their households to the Gold Coast.
Lord Sebastian Coe has motivated the Gold coastline to quote for the 2019 world Athletics Championship.
Squash courts utilized at the games are being transferred to a new national squash centre at Carrara as a continuing hold of the Australian titles.
Commonwealth games as well as tourism market advancement Minister, Kate Jones, stated the coastline will likewise hold the ITU world Triathlon series Grand Final, with participants enjoying the exact same program as commonwealth games competitors.
But it’s not all about sporting action on the field with the Palaszczuk government announcing a first-time partnership between the PGA as well as one of the largest sports conferences in the Asia-Pacific region.
Minister Jones said:
Through tourism as well as events Queensland, we’ve secured the money in sport seminar which, for the very first time, will be held in conjunction with the Australian PGA championship in November as well as December.
The Camiseta US Sassuolo Queensland Government, via TEQ, brokered this partnership having seen an chance to boost length of stay as well as leverage synergies between the two events. We’ll continue to go after this strategy of linking major events with appropriate market conferences for the shared benefit of the hold city as well as event organisers.
As well as looking ahead to events already locked in, I’ve just returned from the annual SportAccord Convention – the world’s premier worldwide sporting convention bringing together agents from more than 100 worldwide sports Federations – where a number of high level talks were held to bring sporting events to Queensland.
I was invited to present a keynote speech to delegates on exactly how we provided such a successful commonwealth games as well as the rate of interest as well as interest to bring events to Queensland was immense. I look ahead to further negotiations with the aim of announcing new events for the Camiseta Atletico Madrid specify over the next three to five years.
Our strong target is to double the present value of Queensland’s events calendar to be worth $1.5 billion to the Queensland economic climate by 2025.
Minister Jones added that she was proud to be part of a labour government accountable for providing the Games:
I’m dedicated to working with council to make sure the venues we provided for the games Camiseta Barcelona on the Gold coastline continue to hold major events as well as benefit locals.
This week I’ve been negotiating with a few of the world’s leading sports administrators about what we have to offer to leverage the games to bring more sporting events to the Coast.
Tourism as well as events Queensland are likewise working on a long-lasting strategy with council to make sure taxpayers as well as ratepayers get the very best bang for their buck when it comes to holding events at these venues.
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