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September International Tourism Snapshot (pdf)
Read the information in the PDF ‘International Tourism’ and in your groups discuss what you think are the reasons for the rise or fall in tourist numbers from these countries. Share and compare your reasons with other groups in your class.
Detailed information relating to tourism on the Gold Coast and to Australia in general is collected and produced by Tourism Queensland. This information is available at the link below:
http://www.tq.com.au/research/index.cfmThere are issues of visitor pressure, especially at 'honeypot' sites, such as the pretty villages of Bamburgh and Craster. Management of the AONB is designed to minimise the negative impacts of visitor pressure.
Like all tourism destinations, visitor numbers to the Gold Coast change from one year to the next, although over a longer period of time the area has seen a steady increase in visitors and future projections are for visitor numbers to continue to grow. Many of these visitors will be domestic visitors.
EVIDENCE LOG 3 - Factors affecting tourist arrivals
'The declines are partly due to externalities, including the 2010/2011Queensland floods and cyclones, the Tiger Airways grounding, suspension of direct Jetstar flights between Japan and the Gold Coast, the earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, a strong Australian dollar and economic instability in many developed countries. These events have reduced demand and restricted travel'.
The extract above is taken from a recent edition of Tourism Snapshots giving information about tourism in Australia. It explains some of the reasons why tourist arrivals in Australia had decreased during the period being covered.
From the extract above; identify two environmental factors and two economic factors which have affected tourist arrivals and record them on the Evidence Log