Comprehensive Report on Tourism in Society: Blue Mountains Field Trip

This report provides an in-depth analysis of tourism in the Blue Mountains, Australia, based on a field trip. It begins with an introduction to tourism and its significance, followed by a literature review discussing the attractions, including Blue Mountain National Park, Blue Mountain Drive Discovery Trai...Read More

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Literature Review............................................................................................................................3
Blue Mountain National Park......................................................................................................4
Blue Mountain Drive Discovery Trail.........................................................................................5
Three Sister Walk........................................................................................................................6
Prince Henry Cliff Walk..............................................................................................................7
Other Observation during the Field Trip.........................................................................................8
Economic Impact.........................................................................................................................8
Environmental Impact.................................................................................................................9
Sustainable.................................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
Reference:......................................................................................................................................11
Appendix:......................................................................................................................................12

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Executive Summary
The report draws attention to the core area of the places of Blue Mountains based on the field
trip. The experiences of the tourists and the beauty of the place is discussed in the report. On the
other part, the explanation indicates about the environment and economy impact of tourism. As
well as problem discussed the report also tells about how tourism has been a source for the
employment of local people.

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Introduction
In simple words, tourism can be described as the accompanying activity of people away
from their traditional home surroundings. In other words, it also known as business fulfilling is
the needs of those persons who provide services and advantages for employment. Tourism
initiatives are many and varied, which makes sectorial description difficult. As tourism can be
measured from, an extensive range of viewpoints many investigators have adopted a reductionist
approach by analyzing it concluded its portions. Tourism for many nations, including Australia
signifies a main income producer secretarial for about three percent of world GDP.
The report is about tourism in society. The report is based on a real field trip to the Blue
Mountains situated in Australia. Since years, it had been the tourist attraction for the public who
are coming to enjoy their holidays. The report is framed to analyze the experience of the tourist
and their behavior. The report contains the observations based on the findings and the key areas
of the place. Impact of social culture, economy and environment has been discussed in the report.
Literature Review
The visitors of Blue Mountains said that the place has a magical view all over the year. In
autumn, it had a glow view all over the sites, during winter cool, spring was full of colors and
summers were refreshing. Population at Blue Mountains is dense because of the Eucalyptus tree
bearing oil. The atmosphere is occupied with finely discrete dews of oil, which, in mixture with
dirt elements and water vapor, strew petite-wave distance rays of light that are mainly blue in
color. The site attractions available at Blue Mountains are and the experience of the visitors are
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Blue Mountain National Park
The park is home for more than hundreds of species grouping under eucalypts, reptiles,
birds, amphibians, and the plants category since the ancient age. The famous natural site
attraction is the pristine wilderness. Over and done with the field observations, it was
concluded that the visitors come from all across the world to explore the park. This park
comes under the major tourist attraction. The Grose Valley is framed by the Grose River;
their headwaters of the river belong to Mount Victoria. The valley is situated between the
Bells Line of Road and Great Western Highway. These were the two main routes across the
Blue Mountains.
Figure 1. Grose
Valley
(Source: Dunkley 2016)
The above figure describes the view of the valley. The tourist had a pleasant view about the
valley. The place had the best view in the month of January at daytime and early mornings.

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Blue Mountain Drive Discovery Trail
Figure 2: Blue Mountain Drive Discovery Trail
(Source: Everingham, 2016)
This Discovery Trail is well recognized as a brink-of-the creation drive all over the place
the rock face tops, crammed full of viewpoints, picnic zones and outdoor pathways. It is situated
accurate together with lots of gallerias, espresso bar, and country park magnetisms and lodging.
Tourist attractions of the ambition comprise holiday at the Three Sisters, Echo Point, the
Wentworth Falls Picnic Area Sublime Point and its related lookouts. It takes one hour to reach
Drive Trail from Sealed suburban road ending at Wentworth Falls from there turning left into
Fletcher Street.
The field observation concluded that the discovery trail is regarded as a countless day to
enjoy the diminutive walks such as Leura Cascades, Sublime Point, Princes Rock and Katoomba
Falls. There were many picnic spots for the kids and for adults the attraction lies at village halt.
The best time to visit this place is during winters as it is more preferred for picnics.

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Three Sister Walk
The outstanding landmark of the Blue Mountains is 900 meter stating from the Echo point
downcast over the Blue Mountains National Park until Oreades Lookout. The walk is prevalent
that trails a flat concreted trail the entire way. Along with the walk, there is a side trip Spooners
lookout is fine value the additional effort. All over, it is suitable for family. The observation
concluded that this attractive place experiences the visit of millions of crowds every year.
Figure 3: Direction for the Three Sister
(Source: Sevier and Matthews, 2016)
The above picture indicates the brief history of the three sisters. The tourist are more
attracted to experience the view after having the glance on the note. Tourists visiting at this
place enjoys the site.

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Prince Henry Cliff Walk
The Prince Henry Cliff Walk is 6.8 kilometers from Katoomba to Leura. The walk
concludes the top cliff line along with the main outlooks of the area. The scene of Jamison
Valley are awesome.
Figure 4: Prince Henry Cliff
(Source: Coleby, David. 2015)
The above figure indicates the roadway to Prince Henry Cliff and other nearby location in
the park. In the picture, it gives a brief idea about the place. This increases the urge of visiting
the place and experience the view.

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Other Observation during the Field Trip
Economic Impact
Early years study on impact of tourism based on the regions and destinations have been
concentrated on economics. The concentration was based on quantifying the economic impact
and normal optimisms obtained through tourism advantages. The unique and delicate
destinations available by the grace of nature has been drawn by tourism. However, due to natural
consequences, the advantages were faded and those were never forecasted in the past. The
advantages and cost that has been created by the activity of tourism can be seen in three ways as
community as local, authorities and lastly as tourist. The authorities bear the cost that remains
hidden and is left out by the tourists. The local community enjoys the profits earned from the
activity of tourism. Tourists generate proceeds by way of taxes for government. Balance of
payments is done through generating jobs and contribution.
At an insincere level, the economic assistances of tourism appear understandable. “In
current years a cumulative numeral of authors have spoken hesitations about the nature and
amount of the reimbursements of tourism and articulated cynicism about the probable of tourism
as a substance for development and expansion as a means of exploiting the wellbeing of local
persons. In a study conducted in some regions it was renowned that though tourism – as an
economic growth approach - enlarged the degree of economic growth and perverse differences
between counties and social lessons. ( Sevier and Matthews, 2016).The discriminations were
triggered by monetary enticements for seaside tourism growth at the expenditure of rural parts.
In spirit, this is a tricky of assigning capitals and whether the emerging of the tourism business
signifies the best use of obtainable resources normal hominid. Rustic parts are usually missing
monetary variety and passable organization, are based on an imperfect numeral of economic

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activities, and have a smaller amount educated inhabitants. All this donates to the curb of the
rural inhabitants to safe jobs, encourage investment. In addition, in these areas, some lack of
scheduling, administration and observing of economic activities includes tourism. The ones who
are served with the jobs about tourism are seasonal base and has low rate of wage even their
promotion opportunities are low. In comparison to other industries, tourism is in need of those
employees with semi skill and are satisfied with minimal range of wage. Through economic
view, the aim of the local communities shall be in obtaining the higher output than the costs they
had to bear. ( Vitousek, Loope and Westbrooks, 2017).
Environmental Impact
In the early years of study, tourism had been a theme of research in the steam of ecology.
The study indicated the positive impact of economy and negative impact of environment. To get
a perfect overview for the relationship of environment and tourism a large number of factors is
need to be taken into consideration such as private sector, local community, visitors and tourist,
non-governmental organizations and authorities. The communal denominator of these performers
is the man. The relationship between environment and tourism is the countenance of interaction
of human with nature. The author argued that the negative impact of environment was tough to
point out, as it is not justified that the degradation caused in the environment is because of the
tourism activity. The author stated that there could be an indirect impact of tourism on the
environment. Routledge(2015) stated that tourism has acted as an advantage for environment. As
the government has taken actions for protecting and conserving, the natural areas and parks
developed. It was observed that the tourism has uninterrupted adverse effects on the normal
environment and it puts a great heaviness on the resounding capability of congregation districts
and indirect, from growth of tourist amenities. It becomes understandable that the environment

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containing of the scenery will grieve from the manufacture of guesthouses, supermarket malls or
amusement parks. Common problems of tourism caused to environment is pollution caused by
air, water and soil, soil erosion and the change in the structure caused in flora and fauna,
congestion caused by traffic. The degradation caused to the environment has to borne by the
local residents of the area.
Sustainable
The subsequent chances are acknowledged to sustenance the growing of sustainable
service sector action in the Blue Mountains.
 Lodging
 Magnetisms/Familiarities
 Journey's end Consciousness, Stamping and Tourist Services
 Supportive Substructure and Projects
Conclusion
The report is framed on the tourism in Australia and the impact of it on the society. A
general introduction on the tourism has been given with an overview about the Blue Mountains.
the information. In the literature review a broad discussion on the scenario of Blue Mountains
and the experiences of tourists and the brief discussion on the sign board has been done. The
impacts of tourist on different factors are being discussed. Observations made by different
authors has been discussed to the support the study.

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Reference:
Coleby, David. "Epacris browniae (Ericaceae), a newly-discovered shrub from the Blue
Mountains, New South Wales, Australia." Telopea 18 (2015): 67-72.
Dunkley, J.R., SANDSTONE CAVES IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS: THEIR EUROPEAN
CULTURAL HERITAGE. BLUE MOUNTAINS, p.65.
Everingham, B., 2016. Featured national park: Blue mountains national park. Nature New South
Wales, 60(4), p.24.
Gorissen, S., 2016. Conservation biology of the endangered Blue Mountains water skink
(Eulamprus leuraensis).
Hunt, C.A., Steenbeeke, G. and Merckx, V., 2014. Thismia megalongensis (Thismiaceae), a new
species of Thismia from New South Wales. Telopea, 16, pp.165-174.
Lloyd, D., Gilmour, S. and Stimpson, K., 2015. Promoting the greater blue mountains world
heritage area: Environmental presentation within tourist brochures. Journal of Heritage Tourism,
10(4), pp.325-343.
Mason, Peter. Tourism impacts, planning and management. Routledge, 2015.
McKay, C., Brander, R.W. and Goff, J., 2014. Putting tourists in harms way–Coastal tourist
parks and hazardous unpatrolled surf beaches in New South Wales, Australia. Tourism
Management, 45, pp.71-84.
Seiver, B. and Matthews, A., 2016. Beyond whiteness: a comparative analysis of representations
of Aboriginality in tourism destination images in New South Wales, Australia. Journal of
Sustainable Tourism, 24(8-9), pp.1298-1314.

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Vitousek, P.M., Loope, L.L. and Westbrooks, R., 2017. Biological invasions as global
environmental change.

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