Tourism Plan to Reduce Coral Bleaching and Safeguard Great Barrier Reef

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Executive Summary
The effects of climate change such as chlorine bleaching in recent times has been apparent on
various coral reefs region explored by travellers. The Great Barrier Reef is identified as an area
of great natural magnificence, which expands over 2000 km along the Queensland coast of
Australia with over3000 reads and around 900 Islands. The Great Barrier Reef as a result has
been distinguished as an icon for environmental tourism, which is one of the significant
economic activities on the region that magnetizes over 1 million tourists from all over the world
every year. World heritage status however claims that the Great Barrier Reef is supervised in
accordance to the fundamental values and Standards of conservation as well as sustainability.
The paper provided comprehensive insights about the value and significance The Great Barrier
Reef holds for the people of Australia and at the international level. In addition to this the paper
evaluated the impact of mass Coral bleaching on regions of Great Barrier Reef as an emerging
environmental issue and prepared a tourism plan in order to reduce the issue of Coral bleaching
and safeguard the Great Barrier Reef for future generations.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
Climate Change and Mass Coral Bleaching................................................................................3
Significance of Great Barrier Reef..............................................................................................4
Responsible Tourism on the Great Barrier Reef..........................................................................6
Tourism Plan to Help GBR from Coral Bleaching......................................................................7
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................15

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Introduction
Tourism in recent times has been identified as a unique phenomenon in all countries in
the world and comprises a constant propensity of increasing its growth at an international level.
There cannot be identified any country in the world which has not developed any type of tourism
in which citizens are not engaged in tourist movement outside of their permanent place of
residence(Coles et al. 2015). As per the data provided by the United Nations World Tourism
Organization (UNWTO) global tourists’ arrival in 2016 has reached over 1.3 million, which is
estimated as a 4% increase in comparison to the statistics, given in the last two years(Sheaves et
al. 2016). The expenditure rate of tourist arrival has reached up to 1.5 billion US dollars in 2015
and the tourism sector shows an inclination in participating with 10% of the global GPD (Gross
Domestic Product). The term tourism policy primarily signifies the conscious activity of the
nation in the hospitality domain in order to develop the two primary sectors of the industry based
on accommodation along with food and beverage along with the growth of other sectors. The
fundamental aim of tourism policy is to essentially undertake measures and activities which will
fully activate wide ranging factors for the development and improvement of hospitality as well as
tourism towards the increase of hospitality incomes, revenues and utilization and further to
develop their structure and quality(Eriksson and Byrne 2015). The following paper will evaluate
an emerging tourism crisis in the tourism sector related to coral bleaching and prepare a relevant
tourism plan in order to mitigate the rising challenge within the Australian tourism sector.
Discussion
Climate Change and Mass Coral Bleaching
Mass coral bleaching posed severe impact on reefs at the global level in the late 1900s
and across the regions of South East Asia during 2010. In Australia, the emerging forces of