{"id":10479,"date":"2009-03-03T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/new-tourism-march-2009-2\/"},"modified":"2009-03-03T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T09:14:00","slug":"new-tourism-march-2009-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/03\/new-tourism-march-2009-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tourism &#8211; March 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travmedia.com\/images\/db\/195960.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travmedia.com\/images\/db\/195960.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>Welcome to the March edition of New Tourism for 2009, Tourism Queensland\u2019s latest news from the Sunshine State. Highlights of this month\u2019s edition include a new Skywalk in the Gold Coast rainforest, Brisbane\u2019s latest boutique hotel and some great events across the State. <\/p>\n<p>New Tourism information and stories are copyright free for media. For images, click on the caption below the thumbnails for instant high resolution downloads, also copyright free. A clipping would be appreciated. Please send to Tourism Queensland, c\/- Synergy Marketing and Public Relations, PO Box 520, New Farm Qld 4005. We welcome new feedback by email or phone (07) 3303 9966<\/p>\n<p>Skywalk takes hinterland exploration to new heights <br \/>The Gold Coast hinterland\u2019s eco offerings reached a new high with the opening of the Rainforest Skywalk on Tamborine Mountain last month.<\/p>\n<p>Hop into Gladstone this Easter<br \/>Festival fever will hit the Central Queensland city of Gladstone this Easter with the annual Harbour Festival and Coconet Classic both promising to be bigger than ever this year.<\/p>\n<p>Luxury comes to Bundaberg coast<br \/>Bundaberg\u2019s Coral Coast has welcomed its first internationally-branded luxury apartment hotel with the opening of the Grand Mercure Bargara Apartments. <\/p>\n<p>Wheely good tours of the Sunshine Coast<br \/>The Sunshine Coast\u2019s picturesque beaches and hinterland regions have become much more accessible for disabled visitors thanks to WheelAdventures. <\/p>\n<p>Carnivale into Port Douglas<br \/>The seaside resort village of Port Douglas is busy preparing for its annual Carnivale festival \u2013 a celebration of life in the tropics over 10 balmy days and nights from May 21 to 31. <\/p>\n<p>Brisbane welcomes The Portal Hotel <br \/>The Portal Hotel, in fashionable inner-city Spring Hill, will be Brisbane\u2019s latest accommodation option when it welcomes its first guests on March 6.  <\/p>\n<p>Step back in time in Charters Towers<br \/>History is coming alive in Charters Towers with new horse drawn carriage and wagon tours and the reopening of the World Theatre tours and the town\u2019s museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the March edition of New Tourism for 2009, Tourism Queensland\u2019s latest news from the Sunshine State. Highlights of this month\u2019s edition include a new Skywalk in the Gold Coast rainforest, Brisbane\u2019s latest boutique hotel and some great events across the State. New Tourism information and stories are copyright free for media. For images, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}