Gold Coast Schoolies Week: Reflections on Tourism, Leisure & Safety

This blog post provides an overview of the Schoolies Week event, a popular celebration for graduating secondary school students in Australia, particularly in the Gold Coast. It discusses the event's origins, its attraction to students nationwide, and its significance as a celebratory experience after years of academic stress. The post highlights the Gold Coast as a favored location for Schoolies, emphasizing the fun activities, beaches, and overall memorable experiences it offers. It also addresses the safety concerns associated with the event, noting the measures implemented by organizers like schoolies.com, including strict entry protocols and enhanced security. Furthermore, the blog acknowledges the ongoing debates regarding the event's negative image but suggests that its continued popularity makes its cessation unlikely. The primary purpose of Schoolies Week is to allow students to enjoy the end of their school years with peers, marking it as a highly anticipated and massive event despite existing concerns.

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Schoolies is one of the popular event celebrated mostly by students who complete their
secondary school education. Schoolies’ week is also referred to as leaver’s week. Although the
event’s first week is for Queensland and NSW, the later weeks are for students across the nation.
Student across Australia celebrate with the fun party since years of hard work, and high degree
stress is accomplished. The paper aims to provide a deeper insight into the event and discuss the
same.
Graduates of private single-sex schools initially started the schoolies week and in the
1980s beginning, it gained attraction from all over Australia. The Gold Coast is a popular place
in Australia as a location and with schoolies happening in this specification are have gained more
popularity (Abodeeb, Wilson & Moyle, 2015). The event involves thousands of year twelve
students in Australia. It is a weeklong celebration with friends and people of the same age.
Students create memories for a lifetime before they step on their next stage of life. Schoolies
offer several destinations with fun activities, sunbath, pool and beaches. Many school student
look forward to this event with great anticipation.
Safety is often the primary concern of the parents, and therefore, schoolies.com take
significance responsibilities for the students. There are strict photo identity building entry passes
for the safety purpose. No outside people are allowed without the permission of the authorities.
Also, a number of safety measures are put in place in order to keep the events free from any
troubles (Schoolies.com, 2018). Since last few years, the event is considered to be taking a
negative image and debates are on that is based on the continuation of the event. However,
looking at the present demand of schoolies, there is very less scope for the event to be closed.

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Summing up everything, the primary motive of the event is to enjoy the end of school
years along with friends and people of the same age. The schoolies week is a long-awaited event
of the school students, and it is massive. There are many concerns regarding the event however,
there are also safety measures that organisers take into consideration.

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References:
Abodeeb, J., Wilson, E., & Moyle, B. (2015). Shaping destination image and identity: insights
for Arab tourism at the Gold Coast, Australia. International Journal of Culture, Tourism
and Hospitality Research, 9(1), 6-21.
Schoolies.com, 2018, What is Schoolies Week, retrieved from: https://www.schoolies.com/what-
is-schoolies.