Queensland cashed-up tourism investors in Brisbane with $ Billions
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@ Jun 27th 2013 2:31pm
- By Garry Larden
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Queensland cashed-up tourism investors in Brisbane with $ Billions
More than 100 local and international investors, developers and financiers recently converged on Brisbane to preview a portfolio of tourism investment opportunities. Premier Campbell Newman hosted the cashed-up guests at Parliament House as part of a drive to inject major new investment dollars into the recovering tourism sector.
Guests included major property developers, tourism operators, wealthy investors and entrepreneurs, and among the opportunities presented to the crowd were short-term accommodation assets, resorts, leisure attractions, tourism experiences and government infrastructure projects.
The cache included the 2018 Commonwealth Games Village on the Gold Coast, Cairns Aquarium, Daydream Island Resort, a proposed hotel at Brisbane’s South Bank and land in the Mary Valley, controversially acquired by the former Labour Government for the later-abandoned Traveston Dam Crossing project.
Tourism Minister Jan Stuckey also launched the Tourism Investment Gateway, an online tool that includes spatial mapping that identifies the opportunities on offer.
“Queensland’s resilient and diverse economy, investment-friendly business environment and fantastic array of landscapes and tourism experiences provide opportunities that investors and financiers should seriously consider,” Stuckey says.
The event was part of a wider strategy that includes an ambitious target to double annual over night visitor expenditure to $30 billion by 2020 so this is another positive move in the right direction for Queensland.
