Case Study: International Tourism System in Perth, Western Australia

This case study provides a comprehensive analysis of the international tourism system in Perth, Western Australia. It begins with an executive summary and an introduction that highlights the significance of the tourism industry for Perth's economy and lifestyle. The report delves into the historical development of tourism in Perth, emphasizing its ecological system and the factors contributing to its attractiveness. It examines tourism visitation trends, including recent declines and the impact of international visitors. The study then explores the destination's attractiveness, focusing on the factors that motivate tourists to visit. Furthermore, it assesses the positive and negative impacts of tourism activities on the environment, ecology, and economy. The case study also addresses issues in destination development, including infrastructure and environmental challenges, as well as tourism policy issues. The report concludes with a summary of the key findings and a bibliography of cited sources.

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International Tourism System
City of Perth
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Executive Summary
The following report discussed the system of international tourism at the City of Perth which is
the capital of Western Australia. It is a beautiful destination to visit and the tourism industry of
Perth is increasing day by day which is providing a high standard lifestyle to people of Perth.
The report highlighted that tourism Industry has vast effect on Perth in the context of
environment, ecology, and economy. The report also described the historical development of
City of Perth, Tourism visitation, attractiveness of the destination, and effects of tourism
activities. The report also demonstrates the issue in the development of destination and tourism
policies.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Historical Development of Tourism in City of Perth......................................................................3
Tourism Visitation...........................................................................................................................4
Destination Attractiveness...............................................................................................................5
Impacts of Tourism Activity............................................................................................................6
Positive Impacts...........................................................................................................................6
Environment and ecological effects.........................................................................................6
Economic effect........................................................................................................................6
Negative Impacts..........................................................................................................................7
Issues in Destination Development.................................................................................................7
Tourism Policy issue........................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
The tourism industry is flourishing in Perth, due to this there is an increase in work as well as
economic growth. At this present time, the Perth Tourism Department is experiencing a boom in
this industry. Apart from all this, the local government of Perth is providing enough money to
increase the tourism industry in Perth. However, some reports have also shown that the hotel
industry and tourism industry are having a bad effect due to the visa ban. Therefore tourism is an
important industry that is helpful in the economic development of Perth (Tourism Western
Australia, 2017). The following will highlight the international tourism system at Perth including
historical development, tourism visitation, destination attractiveness, and impacts of tourism
activity, issues in destination development and tourism policy issues.
Historical Development of Tourism in the City of Perth
As per the reports, people who come to visit Australia, 70% of them must visit the City of Perth.
In the context of background of Perth, then its ecological system has the highest position and
most tourists visit here to see this ecosystem. The general wealth and high standard of living of
the people here are the primary contributors to its tourist business, along with the urban form and
the style of the houses; it also contributes equally, i.e. the direct and indirect contribution of the
housing style. The density area of Perth is also very low. In the last few decades, development in
the suburban areas has increased density in low-density areas and this development has caused
great harm to bio-diverse vegetation and habitats. The automobile dependence in Perth is much
higher than the rest of the areas, resulting in greenhouse gas emissions are very high on an
average per capita basis which is leading to policy and cultural tensions (Dimanche & Reisinger,
2010).
Perth, which is the capital of Western Australia, because of this, there is a lot of movement in the
markets and the lifestyle is also very colorful which attracts people more than other areas. There
are beautiful parks in the cities around it, boating facilities and fishing facilities are also
available, and so there is an influx of tourists. Western Australian cities account for 13.6% of
Australia's domestic GDP and are the fourth-largest economy (Vengesayi & Mavondo, 2009).

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Western Australia hosts a more diverse range of products in its region than any other city in
Australia. The distinctive features of each region, country, can attract national and international
tourists. According to the stage of development, the features and development in the tourism
create capacity and opportunity to accommodate additional visitation.
The Western part of Australia is divided into five tourism parts, and these parts are the South-
West part of Australia, Experience Perth, and Golden Outback of Australia, North West part of
Australia and the Coral coast of Australia. In early 2003, Western Australia undertook a regional
review of its regions, rationalizing the architecture of the tourism industry to promote the tourism
industry, as well as reducing fragmentation and the duplication of services along with this
demand they want to remove it. As a result, in 2008, Tourism WA also approved the concept of
new five tourist areas for tourism.
Tourism Visitation
International tourism and visitation to Western Australia are showing a small decline in the year
ending in March 2019. It is declined by 1.2 percent with 949000 visitors as well as total nights
are declined by the 10.7 percent with 23.7 million nights. In holidays, 493100 visitors reached in
the year-end March 2019 and these numbers highlighting the growth in tourism visitation to City
of Perth. It is increased by 9.3 percent as compared to the last year. Spend of international
visitors on holidays is also increased by 14.8 percent as compared to the last year to $808
Million. It is driven by the growth in average daily spend and visitors.
The growth in visitors who come to Western Australia for the purpose of the holiday could not
balance the failures across other purposes. Thus, international visitor spend in WA declined (-)
1.7% to $2.16 billion. Across VFR, the decline in spends of visitors on visiting and nights is
impacted the economic conditions of Western Australia, particularly employment and people
who are working in this industry such as working holidaymakers.

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Sources: (Tourism WA - Strategy and Research, 2019)
At the year-end of March 2019, overall, it is showing the increment in the number of visitors by
16. 2 percent includes overnight and day trips. By the states, it is showing a 16.5 percent increase
in visitors.
Sources: (Tourism WA - Strategy and Research, 2019)

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In the context of percentage, 67 percent of people do day trips, 25 percent of people are
intrastate, 5 percent people are interstate and only 3 percent of people are international who visit
City of Perth (Tourism WA - Strategy and Research, 2019).
Destination Attractiveness
The city of Perth is the capital of Western Australia and it is a popular destination where people
love to visit and enjoy the beauty and culture. The beauty of the City of Perth is attracting
visitors and motivate them to visit and experience different things in life. People love to visit
those places which motivate them. Keeping them satisfied and it is essential for managing the
purpose of providing better services to the visitors so that they will help you to generate revenue
and help in the development of the nation (Aris Anuar, et al., 2012).
The attractions of the destination are the primary factors to consider in the context of destination
appeal. The attractions of destination are key motivators that motivate the tourist visitation and
this is the biggest reason to select by the visitor. Because visitors can choose any other
destination but they choose to visit City of Perth and its reason is peace and beauty of the place.
Tourism destination attractiveness is referred to the point of view of the visitors about the place’s
ability to satisfy their needs. The classification of attractions of destination is evident that many
kinds of attractions attract different kinds of tourists and satisfy their needs. People visit City of
Perth because they think that this destination is able to satisfy their needs. The services and
facilities which are provided by the place are attracting more and more tourists. Basically,
tourism industry is depending on the labor because it involves the interaction between people
who come to visit and who are serving the services. The interaction between local people of City
of Perth and tourists is very important and crucial to attracting the people. The people of City of
Perth are mostly behaving very well with the visitors and provide their best services which
attract people (Vengesayi & Mavondo, 2009).
Impacts of Tourism Activity
Tourism activities impact the host community of the City of Perth in positive as well as negative
manner.

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Positive Impacts
Environment and ecological effects
Tourism has developed continuously in the last few years and tourism is becoming important in
human activities in the modern era. People want to roam in different countries as tourists in their
free time. Today, the tourism industry is developing very rapidly at the national and international
levels and is emerging as a major economic power. Tourism has so much power that it can
change the future of countries. Modern tourism is largely eco-based. We can say that tourism
involves two interactive components - tourist and environment (Moyle, et al., 2013).
No matter how benign the purpose of tourism is, it still has some effect on the local environment.
If tourists want to go anywhere and enjoy themselves by observing landscapes and wildlife, then
they usually stop there too (Michailidou, et al., 2016).
To meet the needs of tourists, proper arrangement of infrastructure related to some basic
facilities like housing, transport ease, and complete supply is necessary. All these processes,
including the behavior of tourists, put some kind of pressure on the environment. Therefore,
efforts should be made to keep this level of pressure to a minimum so that permanent changes in
the environment and ecology do not occur. Therefore, it is necessary that we understand the
interactions between tourism and the environment properly and change our activities accordingly
(Forsyth, et al., 2014).
Economic effect
Tourism provides employment opportunities for local youth in new areas. Tourism accelerates
cultural activities and develops better and sensible relations between tourists and their hosts. At
the national level, it earns a lot of foreign exchange, which is important for any country. The
truth is that tourism is the major means of earning foreign exchange in 83 percent of the
developing countries of the world.
Tourism is an emerging industry in the services sector, which has immense potential. Perth is
known globally as a region of large biological dimensions with incomparable natural sites, which
is a positive side in terms of ecological tourism (Baiburiev, et al., 2018).

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Negative Impacts
When tourists visit somewhere, disposal of trash and waste is also a big problem at those tourist
sites. In many places in Perth, this problem is so serious that the nature of those places has
deteriorated. When tourists visit the forests, the observation of wildlife by tourists hinders their
daily activities, especially in their browsing and breeding.
Issues in Destination Development
When discussed infrastructure-related challenges, this tourism infrastructure includes a supply
chain of vehicles and transport, social and environmental infrastructure working harmoniously at
the regional level to create a destination that attracts visitors from international and domestic
markets and reaching the place through connected streets, main roads and railways and then
hotels, guesthouses and many more places for lodging. It also includes physical structures for
exhibitions, events, and services attracting visitors, and environmental infrastructure such as
national parks, city, and local parks, marine parks and sanctuaries as well as visitor facilities also
add-in it (Haugland, et al., 2011).
When it comes to environmental challenges, then it discusses the quality of the natural and man-
made environment which is necessary for tourism.
The relation between tourism and the environment is complex. It involves various factors that
can adversely affect the environment. When it comes to the development of tourism, its negative
impact can gradually destroy the environmental resources on which it depends. Not only does
climate change through tourism, but it is completely dependent on it. Climate change can
increase the frequencies of disasters, hurricanes and severe seasonal events, which can produce
devastating effects on tourism in the affected areas. Some other effects of tourism include
drought, disease, landslides, an increase in plastic waste in rivers and oceans so on (Saarinen,
2017).
When the tourist reaches his destination, his resource-related challenges arise, which is mainly
the lack of professionals to meet the needs of the tourists. When the tourist reaches his
destination, his resource-related challenges arise, which is mainly the lack of professionals to
meet the needs of the tourists. When a tourist goes to visit another country, then the violence

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factor becomes a malicious factor due to the attack on those foreign tourists. When this type of
violence occurs in a country, then this type of incident has a special effect on women. Whenever
a country is visited for tourism, strict immigration and visa rules of that country are a major
challenge for those tourists. Although foreign tourists consider Perth to be a country with
biodiversity and colorful nature, when tourists want to visit here, they have a lot of difficulty in
getting visas on time (Andrades & Dimanche, 2017).
However a few years ago the Australia Travel Association demanded from the government to
make the visa process a little easier so that the tourism industry in Perth can be promoted, under
which the government has reformed the visa process and made it easier. In this process, citizens
of some countries are being given entry without a visa. The visa which is granted under the
Visitor Visa or Tourist Visa is given for less than 90 days. Australia is very cautious about
granting visas to visitors. The issue of tax breaks for hotels in Australia is also a major issue due
to which the tourist industry in Perth is not growing rapidly. Many big companies believe that
they need financial support from the government to start attracting and grandeur hotels in the city
(Wickens, et al., 2015).
Tourism Policy issue
Sustainable tourism is promoted as a development strategy, in this, describing how natural and
cultural resources can be continuously used in the future and how they are beneficial (Wray,
2009).
Developed, developing and under-developing countries are particularly interested in domestic
and international tourism, and many believe it brings a large selection of economic benefits to
countries including employment opportunities, small business, and hotel business development,
and tourism increased foreign exchange payments. When the government sees growth in the
tourism industry, then with the imported products in the tourism countries, the flow of more
money also increases, which leads to an increase in foreign investment. When the government
gets a lot of benefits from the tourism industry, then the National Government and Local
Government start looking at different ways to make more money from this industry, which
mainly comes in place of imported products and foreign investment. Along with this, the revenue
is generated through luxury goods and the services set on it. Through this classic policy, hardly

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the people working at the grassroots level will be benefited but their makers realize that this
system benefits everyone but the reality is far from it (Pastras, 2013).
All governments know that if tourists reach there on a large scale, then they cannot doubt the
economic benefits of tourism on a large scale. But when the budget is prepared, this area has
often been neglected as a potential development area by the governments of developed and
developing countries. If the region is to be empowered and the communities involved in the
region are to benefit from it, then it is necessary to educate them in this part which can help in
educating the communities involved in the region, thereby generating significant non-economic
benefits, and more profit can be made from it in future. The government can plan tourism
development and it is managed that this industry cannot cause serious environmental or socio-
cultural problems (Kumral & Önder, 2009).
The local government emphasizes that maintaining and improving the quality of the environment
becomes extremely important. It is the duty of the government and a person associated with this
industry to try to maintain a high level of satisfaction with the visitors and does not let any
problem come to them. The government also emphasizes the policy that the benefits of tourism
can be distributed widely in the whole society and makes such rules so that the people of the
grassroots should not be deprived of this benefit. These characteristics make sustainable tourism
a strategic tool in local and national economic development. On the other hand, tourism is a great
opportunity in some urban and rural areas, where there is no other option for economic activity
(Santana Gallego & Li, 2017).
Conclusion
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that the tourism industry is growing day by day
and it is a valuable sector. This sector is also contributing to the economy of City of Perth. These
days, the City of Perth is experiencing higher growth in the context of tourism, living standard
development and inner-city living. The tourism industry of Perth is impacting the community in
positive as well as in negative ways. Perth is the biggest provider of business, entertainment,
culture, nightlife, and arts, and these things are very beneficial to attract more and more visitors.

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