Page 74 - Holidays with Kids - Volume 62 (January 2020)

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HOLIDAY PARK
Splash into BIG4 Gold Coast Holiday Park

The Gold Coast theme parks will be getting a bit of competition in 2020 with BIG4 Gold
Coast Holiday Park building its very own water park. With 40 interactive play features
including a multi-lane body slide, four AquaCube slides, one compact slide and a mega-
huge tipping bucket – all zoned into smaller play areas to suit kids of all ages and stages
– it’s sure to be a hit. Expected to slide into operation in February 2020, the BIG4 Gold
Coast Water Park will be the tallest play structure in any holiday park in the Southern
Hemisphere. goldcoastholidaypark.com.au

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BIG4 amps up accessibility A wheel winner at Wyangala Dam
A new $80,000 modular pump track at Reflections Holiday Park at
BIG4 has teamed up with Amaze, a leading body for autism, Wyangala Waters is proving a winner with kids of all ages. Little guests
and Yellow Wiggle, Emma Watkins, to increase accessibility and who want to enjoy the fun new play space can BYO wheels or take
inclusion for autistic people and their families. From November, advantage of the scooters available for free hire at the kiosk. The pump
BIG4 will introduce a social script, using storytelling techniques track is part of a group-wide initiative to expand land-based guest
to explain the experience and environment to families with offerings across the company’s inland parks. The property also has a
simple language and images. This includes illustrated walking trail planned, ending at Thompson’s Lookout, with fun animal
information about what an autistic person can expect when photo opportunities along the way. reflectionsholidayparks.com.au
visiting, such as how they’ll get there, what it will look like, who
will engage with them and what they can do if they feel
overwhelmed. The initiative will provide autistic people with TRENDS
essential tools to plan a holiday and feel confident. big4.com.au
Road trip sharing platform to
debut in Australia

Australian Government trends show that domestic tourism has risen by
as much as 28 per cent between 2013 and 2018, and research indicates
that globally, 74 per cent of us head off on a road trip at least once a
year. So it makes sense that navigation technology experts TomTom
have chosen Australia as the first market to launch a new platform to
revolutionise travel. Enter RoadTrips by TomTom, arriving in Australia in
January 2020 as a free, ever-evolving, community-based platform
(website and app) designed to help drivers explore, plan, share and drive
incredible routes around the world. tomtom.com