Tourism, Sports & Leisure

As a high-performance sports training location, the Sunshine Coast has proven to be a fantastic home base for the Sunshine Coast Lightning.

- Danielle Smith CEO, Sunshine Coast Lightning

Glamping - facility, Rivershore Resort completed injecting $5.56m into the region’s economy annually.

10+ - cruise ships arriving annually, injecting $2-3m into the region’s economy.

$1.60m - injected into the economy through the 9 Commonwealth countries training for the games.

$4.7m - Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve Discovery Centre.

14% - average growth in domestic visitor numbers per annum between June 2013/17.

Lightning - netball the first elite national sports team established in the region generating $23.5m impact.