AUSTRALIA - Gold Coast's road to wealth is clear

goldcoast.com.au, 09 Oct 07

THERE was a time, about a decade ago, when the Gold Coast's confidence could be described as tepid. The past 10 years have been the most remarkable in the city's history.
Gold Coast Airport records at least 70 arrivals and departures of large passenger jets a day, compared with about 40 flights a day on smaller aircraft conducted by Ansett and Qantas in 1997.
The volume of traffic on the Gold Coast section of Pacific Highway has increased by about 40,000 vehicles a day since that year.
Tourism bosses are daring to dream about a much larger, busier Gold Coast within a few more years and property analysts are already talking about a time when the city runs out of land available for housing.
Outsiders certainly can see the potential. Budget carrier Tiger Airways plans to provide an extra 1.4 million seats into the Gold Coast by 2010, and other airlines are keen to start up new services that would give the Gold Coast direct access to the seemingly inexhaustible markets of India, China and the Middle East.

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