Gold Coast might need marketing campaign to overcome crime reputation with tourists, says Mayor Tom Tate

THE Gold Coast is considering a new marketing campaign to try to overcome its crime-riddled reputation.In the wake of a crime wave including three brutal stabbings - one of them fatal - and a spate of bikie violence, Coast Mayor Tom Tate says a campaign might be needed to reassure tourists and locals.In the latest incident, a Bandidos bikie gang associate was stabbed to death in Broadbeach on Sunday morning as the school holidays began.The Queensland Police Union has described the Gold Coast as Australia's 'crime capital'.

Gold Coast might need marketing campaign to overcome crime reputation with tourists, says Mayor Tom Tate | The Courier-Mail