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Traffic chaos and lines of thousands: Why some Gold Coast small businesses are worried about the 2018 Commonwealth Games

By Administrator | 6 April 2018

It’s been years in the planning, but for small businesses on the Gold Coast the true business impact of the Commonwealth Games remained a mystery until the curtain was lifted on last night’s opening ceremony.

More than 6000 athletes and staff have flocked to the games village this week to chase their sporting dreams, and the state government and organisers promised the business community there would be around 660,000 tourists visiting the Queensland city over the next fortnight, up from the usual half a million visitors.

However, things got off to an interesting start this week with the city’s mayor accusing some businesses of price gouging as tourists started to flock to the city, according to the Gold Coast Bulletin.

For most business owners, however, the impact of the games on their day-to-day business was a top worry, says owner of Gifts on the Gold Coast, Donna Osborne. And traffic was a number one concern.

“Probably, if you were to hear people discussing it inside businesses, they were probably talking about the traffic,” she tells SmartCompany. Read more

Emma Koehn - SmartCompany - 5 April 2018

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