The marine park authority estimates that the Great Barrier Reef Park contributes about $5.76 billion (AU$7.55 billion) a year to the Australian economy, mostly through tourism and recreational ...

The Great Barrier Reef is a resource of value to both tourism and other industries. In the past, the reef has narrowly escaped gas mining, oil spill disasters and overfishing, not to mention the ...

Many of the tourists now flocking to see Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) are hoping to 'see it before it's gone' in the latest example of what's come to be known as 'Last Chance Tourism (LCT)'.

Tourist numbers recently reached a high of 968,131 cruise arrivals in 2014. The first thing to note is that the Great Barrier Reef has, to date, avoided being listed as World Heritage In Danger ...

Queensland’s tourism industry is wholly dependent on the survival of the Great Barrier Reef, but Australian Marine Conservation Society’s (AMCS) David Cazzulino believes the reputation of the ...

You will be pleasantly surprised about how alive the Great Barrier Reef really is, and its abundance of beautiful healthy corals, and massive schools of brightly coloured fish, writes tourism ...

"The biggest long-term threat to the GBR today, and to its ecosystems services, biodiversity, heritage values and tourism economy is climate change, including rising sea temperatures, accelerating ...