Operating in Great Barrier Reef Assessment 2022

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Operating in Great Barrier Reef
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Overview of the Whitsundays and the Great Barrier Reef
One of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest living
structure in the world which stretches for over 2000 kilometer along the cost of Queensland in
Australia and it is also visible from the outer space (Scheffer et al. 2015). To explore the aquatic
wonder of the Great Barrier Reef the perfect place to stay at is the Whitsundays region, which is
located near the central position of the reef. The Great Barrier Reef protects the Whitsundays
from huge waves and thus providing a safe spot for sailing and cruising. This travel blog focuses
on the tourism sector of the Whitsundays in the Great Barrier Reef.
Employment in tourism
The tourism in Queensland is having a rapid growth due to which more and more skilled
are needed. 54 percent of the total number of workers in the tourism workforce comprises of
women. The representatives of Whitsundays tourism industry are considered as the priorities for
developing the future workforce in the region (Bos,Pressey and Stoeckl 2014). The tourism in
Whitsundays both by the direct process and indirect process approximately employs 4500 people
in which 17.5 percent of the workforce in the region are having direct employment in the tourism
job consisting full time employment as well as part time employment (Day and Dobbs 2013).
The accommodation of the employees as well as the food services of the Whitsunday region is
projected to have an increase by 12.5 percent in the coming five years (Lewis et al. 2014).
Regional tourism businesses
The latest available data shows that at present there are more than 600 businesses related
to tourism in the area of Whitsundays tourism (Grech et al. 2013). In an approximation 30

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percent of these kind of businesses consists of at least five employees which quite higher if
compared to state wide statistics of 26.3 percent (Grech,Pressey and Day 2016). Some of the key
enterprises in the area of the tourism of Whitsundays include the Mantra group, Coral Sea Resort
and the Miraj Whitsundays in the Airlie beach (Fletcher et al. 2015).
Discussing the environmental factors
The enterprises of the reef tourism as well as the broad reef tourism of Great Barrier Reef
functions in a large political as well as socio-economic environment which determines the scale
of state, global, the federal government as well as internationally.
Changing landscapes and adaptations