Half Of 30 Resorts On Whitsunday Islands (Queensland Coast) Abandoned, Rotting Into The Sand

The Whitsundays, once a holiday hot-spot and beacon of success for Australia’s tourism industry, has been abandoned and left in a state of disarray. Shocking vision from a 60 Minutes report into the island's ‘ghost resorts’ has shown the once luxurious holiday destination completely destroyed, with hotels, bars and restaurants left to waste away.

Of the 30 resorts on and off the coast of Queensland, half are currently closed. Some of the once idyllic resorts on pristine beaches have been lying dormant for almost a decade with no sign of recovery. “You can really see the devastation here,” Whitsundays local and skipper Dan Van Blarcom told 60 Minutes reporter Charles Wooley.

He described the remnants of a resort on South Molle Island as resembling “a crack house” with destroyed hotel rooms covered in splintered wood and broken glass. South Molle Island has been abandoned since 2017 – when Cyclone Debbie tore through the region and left devastation in its wake.

But despite the island being purchased by a Chinese company shortly after the cyclone, it has been left untouched and in a state of disrepair.

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