Impact of Marine Health on Tourism Industry of Australia

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Position Statement
Impact of Marine health on Tourism Industry of Australia:
The position statement is basically aimed at signifying the necessary goals that a plan or a
project aims to meet at its best.
The impact of climate change on the marine eco system of Australia has brought in a
series of challenges casting a devastating impact on the species, population, and community
levels in Australia, particularly in Tasmania and tropical northern Australia (Amelung and
Nicholls, 2014, pp.230.). There are varied species of fishes and marine creatures which are
already on the verge of extinction specifically due to certain human activity along with the ill
effects of climate change. Thus, these threating conditions have initiated Tourism Australia to
take immediate and stringent actions in checking the degrading condition of marine health in
Australia and employee tourist actions in checking these instances as well as developing the
scope of marine research and incorporating it as an essential element in the tourism activity
Thus the marine health of the country must be uplifted to promote marine industries
which include fisheries, aquaculture, and tourism along with safeguarding the iconic feature of
Australia’s natural diversity (Dunstan, et al. 2016). Thus Tourism Australia has joined hands
with Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) to provide a sustainable eco-tourism
developmental plan to bring a revision in the existing marine condition. Thus the basic objectives
that the policy issues will address will pertain to:
 Impact of marine research tourism in building up the marine ecosystem of Australia

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 Specifically highlight the essential steps in reducing issues like coral bleaching
 Significant contributions of Tourist to help build the marine eco system
 Aid received from Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) in implementing these
environmental measures
Background Context:
Need for conducting Background Analysis:
In order to device a tourism planning strategy it is very necessary to do a complete and
detailed background study and understand what are the significant issues that the country is
facing and what could be the necessary steps undertaken to address the same. Australia’s marine
biodiversity is considered as the worlds third largest stretched across 13.86 million square
kilometers (Wernberg, et al. 2013, p.78.). However the degradation of Australia’s marine eco
system is not a one day affair. Several natural as well as human factor of substantially
contributed towards this environmental degradation. The cycles of several natural climate
phenomena, including the El Niño–Southern Oscillation, the Indian Ocean Dipole and the
Southern Annular Mode has played havoc increasing the water temperature and leading to
massive bleaching of coral reefs loss of kelp forests, fish and invertebrate deaths, and changes in
species distribution in western Australian marine environments. Concentrating on the impact of
human activity particularly the threats that the tourism industry has brought along is tourism
recreational activities like over fishing or impact of other water sports like boating, diving,
snorkeling, surfing which leads to touching or kicking of coral reefs and disturb their natural
habitat as well as cause potential damage to theses rare species (Salic and Zelic, 2018). Thus,
these threating conditions have initiated Tourism Australia to take immediate and stringent

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actions in checking the degrading condition of marine health in Australia and employee tourist
actions in checking these instances as well as developing the scope of marine research and
incorporating it as an essential element in the tourism activity. The Global Sustainable
Tourism Council has also identified these environmental threats and have join hands with
Tourism Australia to better address these environmental challenges.
Moreover Tourism Australia also feels that there is wider and profitable scope in
developing potential tourism base through sustainable development measures that would attract
millions of international travelers and bring in the attention of various environmental protection
organizations who believe in safeguarding these natural treasures as well as raising necessary
funds to plan and employ policies in lieu of protecting these natural resources (Hsieh. and Kung,
2013 pp.658-665.). Now talking about the health of marine eco system of Australia the mention
of Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is inevitable and also how fast this prized World Heritage area
is constantly threatened by various human activities and is constantly degrading where half of the
coral cover has already been lost with increasing amount of marine pollution, over fishing and
the threatening impact of global warming on the costs. Therefore there is a dire need to control
these threatening issues in an immediate and significant manner.
The Tourism Industry does have a direct impact on the environment in intends to operate.
The tourism industry takes resources from the surrounding environment and no doubt has a
strong dependence over the natural landscape to draw in sufficient revenue from the visitors.
Therefore the tourism industry needs to provide special emphasis on how these natural resources
can be safeguarded and maintained so that the future generation can also enjoy them equally
(Hendrikx, et al. 2013, pp.970). Thus a tourism environment plan specifically upholds the