Impact of Tourism on South Bank Brisbane

This assignment examines the multifaceted effects of tourism on South Bank, Brisbane. It delves into the economic benefits generated by tourism, including employment opportunities and revenue streams. Furthermore, it explores the environmental impacts of tourism, such as greenhouse gas emissions and their consequences for residents' health and infrastructure. The assignment also considers the social aspects of tourism, analyzing its influence on local communities and the overall livability of South Bank.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
Sustainability management issues...............................................................................................3
Recommendations about tourism stakeholder responses necessary for sustainability................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
Summary reflection on the overall field trip learning experience...................................................6
Reference list:..................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Field Trips are crucial since they not only bridge the gap between hand-on experience
and education, but also allow an individual to collect information about realities of tourism
management. Tourism, being a globally competitive industry, majority of the countries across
the world is trying to fetch tourists from both homeland and abroad (McCrea & Walters, 2012).
Being an eye catching place for tourism, South Bank attracts a vast amount of tourists. In this
report, two of the major sustainability management issues of the tourism industry have been
discussed and necessary recommendations are provided to overcome these issues. Along with
this, a summary reflection of the whole trip is provided in this report.
Discussion
Sustainability management issues
Issue 1
One of the major issues faced by entire Brisbane including South bank is the increased
Green house gas emission. South bank is currently facing issues due to excessive green house
gas emission, which in turn has increased the overall consumption of electricity and water along
with an increased generation of waste (Brisbane Regional Tourism Investment and Infrastructure
Plan., 2018). As a result, both residents of South Bank and the tourists who have come to visit
the city are facing issues like lack of power supply. This problem associated with water and
power supply of the eye catching destination, can be considered as the potential threat to the
tourism industries of South Bank. Hence South Bank requires alternative water and power source
for both residents and tourist retention (Annual Reports., 2018). Although the excessive
emission of green house gas has become high concern to the citizens of Brisbane, the
government is giving less attention to issue. Due to High Green house gas emission, South Bank
is suffering from climate change, increased temperature sea-level and various weather events like
floods, storms and droughts. These issues are resulting in various tropical diseases and all these
issues are imposing negative impact on livelihood, infrastructure, housing facilities and basic
service provided to the tourists (Subtropicaldesign.org.au., 2018).

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Issue 2
The popular destination is also suffering from carrying capacity issues due to
overcrowding specially during the weekends in popular areas like Street Beach (Brisbane
Regional Tourism Investment and Infrastructure Plan., 2018). The daily crowd of visitors, both
local and international has crossed the carrying capacity of South Bank. Besides that, lack of
enough picnic tables, barbeques, parking areas and restaurants that are required for the vast
number of people arriving at South Bank is imposing negative impact on the tourist retention.
Tourists are compelled to leave the destination due to the above mentioned issues. Excessive
overcrowding is resulting in increment of congestion level and this in turn is imposing negative
impact on local people and residents of the city (Hunter, 2012). This issue of overcrowding in
South Bank leads to lack of dwelling and basic facilities like proper sewage system, drinking
water and washing clothes. Improper infrastructure also results in various health issues like skin
infection, rheumatic fever, eye infection and others (About South bank, 2018). Both adults as
well as children are the victims of these issues which includes lack of proper water supply and
sanitation (Page, 2014).
Figure 1: Overcrowded South Bank

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Recommendations about tourism stakeholder responses necessary for sustainability
Both Public and Private Institutions of South Bank associated with tourism planning,
should use scientific methods and equipments to deal with the above mentioned issues (Buckley,
2012). Considering the fact that tourism stakeholders at South Bank are taking several initiative
to improve and increase the sustainability of the city, several recommendations are given for
further improvement of the situation (Newsome, Moore & Dowling, 2012).
1. Minimization of yearly Greenhouse emission along with minimization of electricity
usage by eliminating unnecessary use of electricity is needed to be performed (Mason,
2015). Greenhouse
2. Gas emission in South Bank can be treated by conduction of integrated green
infrastructure and green technology. Usage of various equipments to support the outcome
of low carbon is required (Liu et al., 2014).
3. Recycling of both liquid and solid waste materials along with more usage of public
transport in order to reduce the pollution is highly necessary (Lee, 2013). Initiatives
should be taken to make the citizens understand the hazardous results of Greenhouse Gas
by holding several numbers of surveys and campaigns along with giving stress over the
usage of bicycles instead of cars in order to reduce air pollution (Day, 2012). According
to report, the department of Sustainability Reduction has installed photovoltaic system in
about 80 schools that are under the program of solar schools in order to reduce
greenhouse gas emission. Brisbane has also taken initiative to install the Ergon protection
(Farine et al., 2012). Apart from this, tourism stakeholders and stakeholders of leisure
industries are also recommended to install smart meters along with the conduction of
detailed consumption analysis to help the government to track the amount of energy
saved per year.
4. In order to resolve the issues due to overcrowded destination, both restaurants and
museums should be managing the tourists by providing information about the availability
of the vacant places (Ganis, Minnery & Mateo-Babiano, 2014). The destination
management organization should maintain transparency while booking airline seats or
hotel rooms for the tourists. In order to resolve the accommodation problem, more picnic

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tables and barbeque setups should be constructed in order to retain tourist at South Bank
(Nunkoo, Ramkissoon & Gursoy, 2013).
5. Another major step that can be taken by the stakeholders is to build transparency while
booking rooms at South Bank by priory informing them about the number of rooms
available at the destination. This will help the tourists to avoid visiting the destination
when no rooms are available (Lucas et al., 2013). This whole method will eventually
prevent overcrowding at South Bank.
Conclusion
From the above report, it can be concluded that, though several steps are already
been taken to prevent the excessive emission of green house effect and overcrowding of
the destination, in order to fully eradicate the problems, the suggested recommendations
should be implemented. It can be clearly understood that only the government or tourism
stakeholders will not be able to solve the problem since the cooperation of the citizens as
well as the tourists who are visiting South Bank from abroad is crucially important to
resolve these issues.
Experience of the overall field trip
The field trip in South Bank helped me understand the issues that are faced by the
residents and the individuals who have visited the destination from abroad as tourists or
for business purposes. One of my major learning about the eye catching destination
includes engagement of the latent and overt social ways that can be considered as the
hindrance in the growth of the sustainable ways South Bank (Brisbane Regional Tourism
Investment and Infrastructure Plan, 2018). The place is beautiful but we found that the
sustainability is missing due to issues like excessive green house gas emission, high
pollution and overly crowded places. Besides learning about the sustainability issues of
South Bank, we also learned about various initiatives that are being taken by the
government as well as the tourism stakeholders in order to minimize. We understood that
resolving the issues are necessary in order to retain the tourists and save the city from the
hazardous effects of green house gas. This helped me to understand the impact of carbon

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emission and overcrowding population on the overall development of a city. The fact that
a single issue like carbon emission can give rise to several issues that includes power and
water shortage along with air and water pollution was also learned by me. Apart from
this, various remedies to overcome water and power supply shortage which includes
storm water harvesting and implementation of photovoltaic cells was also learned by us.
Finally my experience at South Bank was impactful since apart from enjoying the natural
beauty of the city and its beaches and museum, we also gathered knowledge about the
shortcomings of the place and the necessary measures to resolve the issues.

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Appendix:
Field Notebook
Day 1:
1. Place Visited: South Bank Parklands
Annotations:
 Contains a good number of restaurants and eminent landmarks like the Wheel of
Brisbane, the Queensland Conservatorium, Streets Beach, the Nepal Peace Pagoda and
the Grand Arbor.
 The place is overly crowded.
Day 2:
2. Place visited: Queensland Maritime Museum and Queensland Cultural Centre
Annotations:
 The museum is consisting of a library where pictures, documents and other artifacts
related to history ere evidenced.
 Knowledge gathered about the positive aspects of sustainability that includes generation
of employment and revenue.
 Learned that tourism imposes a positive impact on the livelihood of the local residents.
 Issues of Green house gas emission were evident.
 A good number of residents are found to be suffering from the respiratory allergies due to
excessive green house emission.

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 Green House emission is imposing negative impact on livelihood, infrastructure, housing
facilities and basic service provided to the tourists.
Figure 1: Queensland Museum South Bank
Figure 3: Barbeque and picnic table, South Bank

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Figure 4: Street Beach South Bank
Figure 5: Green House gas emission in South Brisbane