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Want to know more about this fascinating destination? Here you will find a real variety of Gold Coast editorial featuring some of the region's exciting experiences. Feel free to use the editorial provided below to assist you in promoting this destination.

General - 50 Words
The Gold Coast has everything to make your business event a success. The benefits of a great city, surrounded by world-class golfing greens, lush green rainforest, Australia's best theme parks and miles of surf beaches. Perfectly packaged with wonderful weather and an array of professional support services. Business tourism paradise.

General - 100 Words
The Gold Coast has everything to make your business event a success. All the benefits of a great city, surrounded by world-class golfing greens, lush green rainforest, Australia's best theme parks and miles of surf beaches. Perfectly packaged with wonderful weather and an array of professional support services. It's business tourism paradise.

In fact, business paradise all round. The Gold Coast has a thriving multi-faceted economy, and is home to Australia's largest marine industry and a respected film industry. With well-developed infrastructure, inspiring resources and myriad attractions, it's no surprise the Gold Coast is Australia's leading conference and convention destination.

General - 200 Words
The Gold Coast has everything to make your business event a success. All the benefits of a great city, surrounded by world-class golfing greens, lush green rainforest, Australia's best theme parks and miles of surf beaches. Perfectly packaged with wonderful weather and an array of professional support services. It's business tourism paradise.

In fact, business paradise all round. The Gold Coast has a thriving multi-faceted economy and is home to Australia's largest marine industry and a respected film industry. With a well-developed infrastructure, inspiring resources and myriad attractions, it's no surprise the Gold Coast is Australia's leading conference and convention destination.

It's also long been considered Australia's most popular leisure destination. 4.2 million visitors flock to the Gold Coast every year to enjoy its beachfront hotels, hundreds of restaurants, bars and shops, over 40 championship golf courses and 300 days of sunshine.

And while we're talking statistics, when it comes to business, the Gold Coast Convention Centre features an auditorium with seating for over 6,000 people.

But what makes Australia's Gold Coast a truly unique business destination is the amazing range of tours activities and experiences which can be built into a conference program. Being spoilt for choice is VeryGC.

Venues - 100 Words
Golden beaches, green rainforests, thrilling theme parks and peaceful farmland – it's an unbeatable combination that's drawn business and convention travel to the Gold Coast for many years. Groups large and small are well catered for with a wide variety of accommodation and meeting venues, most equipped with the latest in audio-visual and technical gadgetry. Fully supported by carefully trained, professional staff and an experienced business tourism service network. From the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre to less conventional conventions – perhaps a beach party, candle-lit rainforest dinner or breakfasting with tigers, you'll discover the Gold Coast offers very different venues.

Venues with a difference - 100 Words
Venues with a difference. It's what attracts so many business visitors to Australia's Gold Coast. Everyone wants to make their conference or incentive event one to remember; on the Gold Coast, exceptional and out-of-the-ordinary programs are created every day.

With more attractions than any other destination in the southern hemisphere, the region has developed the resources and infrastructure to handle the wildest of imaginations. From the exceptionally sophisticated to the distinctly rugged, from the exclusively opulent to the incredible spiritual, the Gold Coast gives you an endless list of possibilities set against an enormous backdrop of natural and man-made locations.

Dining - 100 Words
The multicultural nature of the Gold Coast has brought about a deliciously successful food and wine industry. Cultivating everything from soft-shell crabs and goat cheese to locally bred Wagyu beef and award-winning boutique wines, the region's produce is in high demand in international markets, particularly Southeast Asia and the USA. Visitors get the chance to sample the whole coast of culinary delights in the Gold Coast's many restaurants. They'll discover an endless variety of Australian and international styles complemented by the freshest of locally grown produce and served in some of the country's most inspired settings.

Shopping - 100 Words
With some of Australia's most sophisticated fashion precincts and largest retail centres, even grocery shopping on the Gold Coast is an enticing prospect.

Spend a day browsing, take a shopping tour, wander through the piazzas or perhaps go bargain hunting in the always famous factory outlets. This is retail therapy on a whole different scale to satisfy every passion and taste.

What's more, all the key shopping areas that make up the main Gold Coast retail trail are within easy reach of accommodation.

Theme Parks - 150 Words
All work and no play makes even the most enthusiastic delegate lose interest. After a long day in business meetings and seminars, everyone needs some time out. And on Australia's Gold Coast we really know how to relax and have fun.

You can step straight from the boardroom on to the fairway, the beach or a deep fishing boat. While partners and children have countless ways to enjoy the region's holiday atmosphere and Australia's best theme parks, exciting shopping centres and World Heritage listed rainforests. All reasons why Gold Coast business events have one of the highest partner participation rates in Australia.

The Gold Coast is Australia's theme park capital, with the fastest, longest, highest and most exciting thrill rides in the country. And equally unforgettable wildlife experiences. Where else can you swim with dolphins, stroll with a Bengal tiger and defy the laws of gravity – all before lunch?

Golf - 150 Words
With more than 40 courses and weather suited for playing all year round, the Gold Coast should also be known as the Golf Coast. Championship courses designed by Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Graham Marsh and Greg Norman draw world-class tournaments to the region and are ideal for private corporate events.

Each course has its own distinctive design and environment – links-style fairways, woodlands, distinctive Australian vegetation, palm-fringed waterholes – so you can play a different course every day or ask a local golf tour company to combine a range of golf courses as part of a VIP package.

Some courses offer specialist golf services to arrange all aspects of your golf day, including play format, signage, trophies and presentations.

You can also incorporate clinics, one-on-one tuition and computerised swing analysis into your conference golf program.

Most of the major courses have restaurants, meeting rooms, pools or sports facilities that can be booked for VIP hosting or partner programs.

Day spa indulgence - 100 Words
The Gold Coast's health retreats and luxurious day spas are an essential addition to any partner or delegate program, offering a full range of pampering treatments and packages. In keeping with the region's Pacific location many of the resorts provide treatments that are traditionally Asian or distinctly tropical.

Incorporate lifestyle program elements into a business conference agenda. Focus your delegates' creative energies with a morning yoga or tai chi class and finish the day with a de-stressing massage or beauty treatment.

Or arrange pre- and post-conference accommodation packages at one of the Gold Coast's internationally renowned health spas or eco lodges.