New Queensland tourism on the horizon in 2024

Queens's Wharf

The highly anticipated entertainment and leisure destination, Queen’s Wharf, is set to open in a staged approach starting in early 2024. Introducing dozens of food and beverage venues, various retail outlets, public artworks and the restoration of nine heritage buildings, Queen’s Wharf will also welcome 6-star Rosewood Hotel, the hotel’s first Australian property, The Star Grand (5-star) and the Dorsett Brisbane (4.5-star). Bringing these elements together and making a visual impact on the city’s evolving skyline is the recently completed Sky Deck sitting atop of the architecturally designed arc towers at an imposing 90 meters above the river.

SOL Elements is a breath-taking wellness destination coming to Mount Tamborine at the Gold Coast hinterland in early 2024. SOL Elements taps into the traditional Japanese Wabi Sabi philosophy, where visitors are encouraged harness the feeling and flow of the natural environment in the interest of self-care and slow living. Communal facilities include onsens, float therapy rooms, cold plunge pools, a Himalayan salt cave and infrared saunas, with the added touch of self-care rituals including breathwork and clay treatments.

A new citizen science pontoon on the Southern Great Barrier Reef is imminent with the construction of Lady Musgrave Experience’s ‘Reef Sanctuary’ pontoon. The launch of the second pontoon off Lady Musgrave Island is set for 2024, bringing citizen science to the fingertips of Lady Musgrave Experience visitors and data collection scientists. The education hub is being purpose built to offer advanced educational experiences where visitors can join wildlife ecologists and marine biologists as they conduct data collection and monitoring, participate in Marine-Biologist-for-a-Day activities and Reef Keeper program research, coral adoption and transplanting programs and reef health surveys.

Rossville Retreat

Further north, High Valley Dawn Permaculture Farm, near Yeppoon, is already operating as a popular tourism attraction and will introduce 12 tiny house cottages in late 2023 and throughout 2024. In Tropical North Queensland, Rossville Retreat, 20 minutes south of Cooktown at Cape York Peninsula, have completed the first stages of new bush lodges set to open in May 2024 in time for the touring season. Each safari-style glamping tent is eco-friendly and comes with its own ensuite bathroom and private garden area.

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