Tourism Photo Essay: Leiper's Whole System - Sydney Opera House

This project is a photo essay analyzing the Sydney Opera House through the lens of Leiper's Whole Tourism System (WTS). The essay explores the three key elements of Leiper's model: the tourist (human element), geographical elements (Tourist Generating Region, Travel Route Region, and Tourist Destination Region), and the tourism industry. The essay uses photographs to illustrate the tourist experience at the Sydney Opera House, including the perspectives of tourists from various regions (e.g., New Zealand, China), their travel routes (e.g., Circular Quay railway station, shuttle bus, Darling Harbour cruises), and the destination itself (e.g., outdoor and indoor views). The project also considers factors like push and pull factors, transport choices, and accommodation, using examples like the Bennelong restaurant and the Park Hyatt Sydney. The essay concludes by emphasizing the significance of tourism in Australia's GDP and how the Sydney Opera House effectively incorporates the elements of Leiper's model, offering insights into the interplay between tourism and its various components.

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Introduction
The term tourism can be defined as the activities of individuals travelling to as well as
staying in places that are outside their usual environment for business or leisure purposes. In this
era of technological advancement, the global tourism industry is experience rapid growth. As per
the data collected in the year 2018, in the mentioned year, approximately 9.2
million tourists visited Australia from overseas, which depicts an increase of 5.2 percent in
tourist visit in the nation from 2017 (Musa, Mohezar Ali & Moghavvemi 2016). Thus it is
highly crucial to analyse the tourism industry of the nation in order to maintain its growth. In the
following paragraph, a photo essay will be written based on the Leiper’s Whole system Tourism
in one of the most popular tourist destination of Australia, Sydney Opera house (Varvaressos
2018). The three elements of the Leiper’s model that will be considered while writing the essay
include the human element that is the Tourist the geographical elements that include The
Generation Region (TGR), The Destination Region (TDR) and the travel enroute or Travel Route
Region (TRR). Tourist is considered to be the human element of the model. According to Leiper,
they are the individuals who travel from the TGR through TR to RDR and return back in the
same way (Musa, Mohezar Ali & Moghavvemi 2016). They are the most vital element on which
the financial enhancement of a tourism industry depends. The TGR are places where a tourist’s
trip begins or end. The TRR includes the places where the main travelling activity of the tourist
takes place. The TDR includes places where the main activity of the tourist takes place. The third
element of the model includes the tourism industry that includes collection of managed
organizations, in business of tourism and providing services. In the following paragraphs, the
whole travelling process of travelling to Sydney Opera house will be discussed along with
relating the same with the Leiper’s Whole Tourism model.

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Discussion
Tourists at Sydney Opera House
The image represents a group of tourists who had visited the Sydney Opera House. As being
discussed earlier, tourists are the one of the three dimensions of the Leiper ‘s WTS (Varvaressos
2018). They are the chief contributors of the tourism industry since the amount of money sent by
the tourists while visiting a particular location and the total number of tourists visiting the
destination region (TDR), determines the rise in revenue of the tourism earned from that specific
TDR. According to Backer and Hing (2017), more than 45.2 percent of the total tourists who

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visit the Sydney opera house is from New Zealand. Other major TGR from where tourists visit
the mentioned TDR includes China, UK and USA (Carlsen 2015).
Tourists from New Zealand to the Sydney Opera House
The above image indicates two tourists who had came to visit the Sydney Opera House (TDR)
from New Zealand (TGR). The Tourist Generating region (TGR) are defined as the permanent
residential bases of the tourists that is the countries from where tourists comes to visit a specific
tourist destination (Tang, Weaver & Lawton 2017). For Australia, the maximum number of
tourists are found to be from New Zealand. Majority of the tourists visit the nation for leisure
purpose. However, the number of tourists for business purposes is also not less. For instance, the
couple (picture above) have visit the place to enjoy their honeymoon.

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Chinese tourists in Sydney Opera house
The above pictures depict two Chinese tourists who had came to visit the Sydney Opera House
(TDR) from China (TGR). Another major TGR for Australia as well as for the Sydney Opera
House (TDR) is China. According to the Leiper’s WTS, there are several factors pertaining to
motive the tourists to visit a TDR (Leiper 1990). They are termed as Push Factors (Carlen 2017).
Some of the chief Push factors that are responsible for inspiring the tourists to visit the
mentioned TDR include the desire to experience weather, extra money, new experiences, fun as
well as the desire to experience a new culture.

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The Circular Quay railway station
The above image is of the Circular Quay railway station which the endpoint of one of the
travelling routes (TRR) that is linking the TGR to the Sydney Opera house. The travelling rout
can be defined as one of the three dimensions of the geographical element of the Lieper’s WTS
(Leiper 2000). It encompasses the tourists’ movement between where they reside (TGR) and to
the destination where they are travelling to (TDR). Some of the major factors that are considered
while selecting a TRR (mode of transport) are time, cost, safety and security. Majority of the
locals s well as tourists takes advantage of train to Circular Quay to reach to the TDR since from
the station, opera house is just a short walk.

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Shuttle Bus to Sydney Opera House
The picture depicts a Bus that picked up the tourists from Sydney airports and dropped them to
the Sydney opera house. According to the researchers, taking the bus is considered to be one of
the cost effective way to reach the Sydney Opera House (Hardy, Ragaini & Hyslop 2018). Thus
this TRR, as per the WTS model that cam be chosen by the tourists ho values costs over time.
According to (), the carbon emission created by TRR impose negative impact on the climate.
Tourists are also offered a brief tour to Sydney which is an added bonus of travelling though
Bus.

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The Darling Harbour
The above picture represents one of the end point of a TRR that is linking TGR, for instance,
Brisbane to Sydney (TDR). This TRR can be considered as both an intermediate place that
tourists often visit en-route as well as one of the endpoint from where water taxies helps the
tourists to reach the destination. This TRR, is one of the mostly popular way o f reaching the
TDR that is the Sydney Opera house by the tourists (Carlsen 2015). In spite of the fact that
travelling to Sydney Opera house by ship is one of the most expensive and time consuming way
of reaching the destination, the wonderful decoration of the harbour itself makes majority of the
tourist to visit Sydney Opera house via the Darling Harbour (Carlen 2017).

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Cruise to the Sydney Opera House
The above picture depicts a journey on cruise from the Sydney harbour to the Sydney Opera
House. The chief reason behind this is the major push factors like entertainment and fun. This
TRR can be considered as one of the most expensive ways to reach the Sydney Opera House
(Tang, Weaver & Lawton 2017). The scenic cruise offers the tourists with a ride around the
Sydney Harbour, with unprecedented views of the city skyline opera House and the Royal
Botanic Garden.

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Outdoor of the Sydney Opera House
The above picture represents the outdoor view that is the view before entering the Sydney Opera
House (TDR). TDR are defined as places for which the tourists travel from their residential
region (TGR) though various transportation systems (TRR). TDR are thus the places where the
chief activities of the tourists take place. It is crucial for TDR to possess some special features as
well as activities to attract the tourists. The TDR possess pull factors that possess the potential to
attract the tourists. Some of the major pull factors include accommodation, entertainment
industry, tourist services, shopping and tourist attraction. The Sydney Opera House can be
considered as one of the tourist attraction of Australia (Tang, Weaver & Lawton 2017).

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The Bennelong restaurant: Indoor of the Sydney Opera House
The above picture depicts the indoor of the Sydney Opera house. The TDR can be defined as the
places where travellers select to stay awhile for experiencing leisure. The Bennelong restaurant is
one of the most popular restaurants in Australia for its delicious cuisines. It is located inside the
Sydney Opera house. Luxurious services are provided to the consumers in this restaurant (Carlen
2017). The space as well as architecture of Bennelong was one of the last projects Jorn Utzon
(the Opera House’s original designer). The tall ribcage of wood and glass provides stunning
views of the Harbour.

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A room inside the Park Hyatt Sydney
In the above picture, a room inside The Park Hyatt Hotel, one of the most popular and closest
hotels to the Sydney is depicted. Hotels are considered to be the chief factors of the third element
of Leiper’s WTS which is the Tourism industry (Leiper 2000). The chief components of the
mentioned element include marketing, accommodation and miscellaneous tourist services.
Conclusion
When it comes to Australia, the tourism industry of the nation is considered to be major
contributor of the nations GDP. From the above discussion it can be clearly understood that the
tourism industry of Australia is a highly furnished one and meets all the elements of the Leiper’s
WTS model in an effective way. A good number of pull factors that are responsible for aTRRacti