page_title: Seaside resort
section_title: Australia
hierarchical_section_title: Seaside resort / Around the world / Australia
caption_attribution_description: English: Gold Coast, summer 2015
context_page_description: A seaside resort is a resort town or resort village, or resort hotel, located on the coast. Sometimes it is also an officially accredited title, that is only awarded
  to a town when the requirements are met. Where a beach is the primary focus for tourists, it may be called a beach resort.
context_section_description: Gold Coast (Surfers Paradise)
  Sunshine Coast
  Jervis Bay (Hyams Beach)
  Tangalooma
  Queenscliff, Victoria
  Agnes Water
  St Kilda Beach
  Glenelg
  Byron Bay
  Central Coast (The Entrance, Newcastle and Ettalong Beach)
  Batemans Bay
  Port Douglas
  Port Macquarie
  Ballina, New South Wales
  Fitzroy Island
  Sydney (Bondi Beach, Manly Beach, Brighton-Le-Sands, Palm Beach)
  Wollongong
  Noosa Heads
  Coffs Harbour
  Margaret River
  Palm Cove
  Nelson
  Nelson Bay
  South West Rocks
  Yamba
  Lizard Island National Park
  Cairns
  Airlie Beach
  Kiama
  Forster
  Culburra Beach
  Tweed Heads
caption: Surfers Paradise, one of the most popular and frequently visited tourist spot in Australia.
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