{"id":7953,"date":"2012-07-25T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/is-australias-gold-coast-ready-for-megaliners-mayor-says-yes-2\/"},"modified":"2012-07-25T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T10:09:00","slug":"is-australias-gold-coast-ready-for-megaliners-mayor-says-yes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/07\/is-australias-gold-coast-ready-for-megaliners-mayor-says-yes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Australia\u2019s Gold Coast ready for Megaliners. Mayor says \u2018yes\u2019."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"232\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoast.com.au\/images\/gallery\/remote\/2012\/07\/19\/1408505.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p>Compiled from news sources by Roderick Eime<\/p>\n<p>Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia) mayor, Tom Tate, is in Florida on a self-funded tour of inspiration which included cruise ship mega-port, Miami, and gambling metropolis, Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>While his city development plans include the slightly oxymoronic-sounding Gold Coast culture precinct that would require another casino to underwrite it, the most interesting point to come out of his pilgrimage was further visions for a super terminal, one with three cruise ship berths, a superyacht marina, casino, surf club and underwater observatory.<\/p>\n<p>Tate says that one suggestion involves a AU$200 million complex at Tugun, commissioned by billionaire developer and chairman of Leda Group, Bob Ell.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ell proposes to finance the project through a public-private partnership arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>Another proposal uses Broadwater Parklands as a site for a $35 million cruise ship facility, while two other locations are along the Spit: one north of Sea World and the other at the Seaway entrance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll narrow it right down and you know what?&#8221; Tate said on local ABC radio, &#8220;Why not let the Gold Coast people also give an input and when I start hearing about the preferred option for our residents, I&#8217;ll be listening and I&#8217;ll say why don&#8217;t we go this way?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Tate hopes to have one of the terminals in operation for the 2018 Commonwealth Games and be large enough to accommodate the world\u2019s biggest cruise liners, like QM2.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: Gold Coast Bulletin, ABC Radio<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"278\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoast.com.au\/images\/gallery\/remote\/2012\/07\/19\/1408495.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"246\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoast.com.au\/images\/gallery\/remote\/2012\/07\/19\/1408445.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compiled from news sources by Roderick Eime Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia) mayor, Tom Tate, is in Florida on a self-funded tour of inspiration which included cruise ship mega-port, Miami, and gambling metropolis, Las Vegas. While his city development plans include the slightly oxymoronic-sounding Gold Coast culture precinct that would require another casino to underwrite it, [&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-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","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=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}