Gold Coast community groups are calling for an investigation into international flights and accommodation donated to the city's Mayor Tom Tate.
Cr Tate updated his public registry of interest in early October, listing return flights to China and accommodation as a gift from Hickey Management.
Tony Hickey is a friend of the Mayor and a spokesman for a high-rise development at Surfers Paradise being built by Chinese company Forise Holdings.
In September, the ABC's Four Corners program questioned Cr Tate about a trip he had taken the month before to Beijing to help launch the Forise development.
When asked if that trip had been funded by others, Cr Tate said it was a private trip.
Cr Tate had not included the date of the travel listed in his updated gift registry, or the value of the flights and accommodation provided.
He has repeatedly declined to speak to the ABC.
Trip 'should be declared as hospitality rather than a gift'
Gold Coast solicitor Deborah Kelly has raised concerns about Cr Tate's declaration.
"The Local Government Act requires councillors to update their register of interest within 30 days and to be very specific with the information and details that are publicly declared," she said.
Ms Kelly, who helps run the community group Save Surfers Paradise, said a declaration should have been made by mid-September if Cr Tate was referring to his August trip to Beijing in his registry of interest.
She also said she believed Cr Tate should have declared the trip as hospitality rather than a gift, which would have required more details be provided.
"He's really required to tell the public the purpose of his visit, not just that he had one," Ms Kelly said.
Ms Kelly said councillors who filed an incorrect public disclosure could be suspended for four years and fined up to $12,000 if they were found to have done so intentionally.
Save Our Broadwater spokeswoman Judy Spence, a former Labor MP and government minister, also wants the matter investigated, saying the public needed more information.
"I think we need to know exactly how much money this entailed," she said.
"I think we're potentially talking about tens of thousands of dollars in hospitality if he flew over first class, if he stayed in very expensive hotels."
Ms Spence said she had accepted small gifts while in office.
"You accept a bunch of flowers, you accept some chocolates, you might accept some tickets to a box at the footy," she said.
But Ms Spence said she turned down other offers.
"I have been offered tickets to very VIP events in Australia which were excessive — it's about knowing where to draw the line," she said.
The Department of Local Government said it had not received a complaint about Cr Tate's donation disclosure.
