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15 October 2024
Bleach Festival Welcomes New Artistic Director for 2025
Experience Gold Coast has today announced the Gold Coast’s flagship contemporary arts festival Bleach is set to enter an exciting new chapter with the announcement of Guest Artistic Director, highly acclaimed Australian artist, Michael Zavros, to lead the festival for 2025. Michael Zavros is excited...
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25 September 2024
Gold Coast Visitor Economy Continues to Hold Strong
Latest National and International Visitor Survey results from Tourism Research Australia for the year ending June 2024 reveal the Gold Coast’s sustained recovery in the post-pandemic landscape. Experience Gold Coast CEO John Warn said Gold Coast's visitor economy continues to demonstrate its resili...
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27 June 2024
Answer The Call For The Best Getaway Of All
Brisbanites can take an exciting call inside an intriguing phone booth with the Holiday Hotline arriving in the city’s CBD for four-days only. It’s a call that will make their day… or more specifically, their holiday! As participants step inside this immersive audio-visual experience, which brings t...
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26 June 2024
Gold Coast Bucks National Trend As Domestic Holiday Haven
Latest National and International Visitor Survey results released by Tourism Research Australia for the year ending March 2024 reveal the Gold Coast’s sustained post-pandemic return. Experience Gold Coast CEO John Warn said the new figures show that the city’s visitor economy continued to rebound in...
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28 May 2024
Iconic Australian artists head up star-studded 2024 Groundwater Country Music Festival lineup
With more than a decade under its belt, the award-winning Groundwater Country Music Festival returns this October bringing some of Australian country music’s most iconic artists to the Gold Coast. Announced on the festival’s first lineup is none other than the Queen of Country, legendary songstress ...
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14 May 2024
Experience Gold Coast welcomes festival community partners
Experience Gold Coast is excited to announce partnerships with three key community organisations for its upcoming festivals Blues on Broadbeach (16-19 May) and Cooly Rocks On (5-9 June), and later this year, for Groundwater Country Music Festival (18-20 October). University: Official University Part...
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09 May 2024
The countdown is on to Cooly Rocks On
Fans of the cars, music and lifestyle of yesteryear are counting down to the annual must-do on the calendar with less than a month to go until crowds make the pilgrimage to the Gold Coast for Australia’s largest nostalgia festival, Cooly Rocks On. Festival organisers have unveiled the 2024 program a...
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26 April 2024
The world's most elite surfing series returns to the Gold Coast
The Gold Coast has secured the rights to host a World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour event at Snapper Rocks for the next four years. The World Surf League has announced the iconic point break will return to the Championship Tour schedule from 2025-2028, after a five-year hiatus. The sand-bottom...
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08 April 2024
Next Monday Open This Outlook Instead: Gold Coast Beckons a Mid-Week Escape
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27 March 2024
New Figures Signal Growth in Gold Coast Visitor Economy
Latest National and International Visitor Survey results released by Tourism Research Australia for the year ending December 2023 reveal the Gold Coast’s post-pandemic continued growth trajectory. Experience Gold Coast CEO John Warn said the new figures show that the city’s visitor economy continued...
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05 March 2024
Acclaimed Bluesman Jon Cleary and Memphis' Hi Rhythm Section to play iconic Blues festival
New Orleans based Grammy Award-winning musician Jon Cleary will be gracing the Blues on Broadbeach stage this May, announced as part of a stacked second lineup that will also feature the revered Hi Rhythm Section, considered by some as the best musicians Memphis has ever produced. They’ll be joined ...
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22 February 2024
Look What You Made Me Do: Gold Coast To Host Screenings of Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour
The Gold Coast is bringing the blockbuster Taylor Swift experience to 1,500 fans with exclusive screenings of The Eras Tour at HOTA, Home of the Arts for one weekend only. Despite it being a Cruel Summer for those who couldn’t secure concert tickets, fans are invited to Shake It Off and revel in the...
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22 February 2024
International reggae-soul act headlines expanded Blues on Broadbeach program
Blues on Broadbeach (16-19 May) just got bigger, revealing yet another reason for music fans to make the pilgrimage to the festival on the Gold Coast in 2024. On Sunday 19 May, Kurrawa Park will play host to a special lineup exclusive to ticket holders, featuring New Zealand genre-bending powerhouse...
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15 February 2024
Pearl Jam to kick off Australian tour on the Gold Coast
Iconic American rock band Pearl Jam will heat up Heritage Bank Stadium this November, the first Australian stop on the band's Dark Matter World Tour 2024 announced today. It has been a decade since Pearl Jam last performed in the country in 2014, and promoters are expecting more than 40,000 fans to ...
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15 February 2024
Cooly Rocks On revs up with tickets now on sale
Australia’s largest nostalgia festival, Cooly Rocks On, returns to Coolangatta on the Gold Coast from 5-9 June ready to celebrate the motors, music and lifestyle of yesteryear with organisers gearing up for huge crowds. Ticketed shows at the award-winning festival are now on sale including the highl...
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22 January 2024
GC Summer FUNds Injects 7.2 Million in Stimulus For Visitor Economy
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
Experience Gold Coast acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we are situated, the Kombumerri families of the Yugambeh Language Region.
We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, and recognise their continuing connections to the lands, waters and their extended communities throughout Southeast Queensland.