Planning for thousands of new hotel rooms in Queensland has begun for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tourism and Sports Minister Michael Healy said.
Healy began discussions with Greater Brisbane tourism operators and Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner this week. But Schrinner said the Games 2032 hotel room research needed to stretch statewide, unlike the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Visitors in 2018 stayed in accommodation up to four hours drive time to a Games venue ie on the Sunshine Coast for Gold Coast based events.Source: Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Post-Games report 2019He said one – Ghassan Aboud’s Crystalbrook Collection Group – had invested over half a billion dollars in the shape of two new hotels and one refurbished hotel in Cairns.