The Impact Of Travel And Tourism In Australia

The Australian Indigenous community hold extremely significant corrections to the land of Australia, of which they refer to as ‘Country.’ Indigenous people acquire deep meaning from the land, sea and the countless resources derived from them. This special relationship has formed for many centuries. To them ‘Country’ is paramount for overall wellbeing; the strong, significant, spiritual bonds embody their entire existence. Knowledge is continually passed down to create an unbroken connection of past,

Foreign and domestic tourism is an important component contributing to Australia’s economy. The major tourist attraction sites in Australia include the coastal towns of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. The nation is known worldwide for beautiful tourist attraction sites such as the Great Barrier Reef, the Sydney Opera House, Outback- a vast interior wilderness desert and wild sanctuaries like kangaroos and duck-billed platypuses (Buckley, etal, 2000, pp.27-45).

There are many tourism advantages at Uluru (Ayers Rock). Well-managed tourism can generate the financial and political support, which is needed to sustain the values of protected areas (such as Uluru). It can also increase understanding of the environment and its cultural values, which contributes to enriching visitors experience of Uluru. Each year more than 250,000 people visit Uluru and its national park from all around the world, that’s around 680 people each day. This is good economically as the entry fees are between $15 and $65. Uluru is opened all year round. Nationally, the nature-based tourism sector contributes $23 billion to the Australian economy each year.

Human use and tourism is one of the main reasons the Great Barrier Reef is such an astounding place. The reef consists of more than 400 different kinds of corals, over 1,500 species of fish, and over 200 types of birds (2011). The tourism industry is a major contributor to the local and Australian economy. The range of activities for tourists include day tours, overnight and extended tours, snorkeling, scuba diving, fishing, whale watching, helicopter tours, and other services that capitalizes on the world’s fascination with it. (2011). The earliest occurance of tourism was in the late 1890’s, when this area became a

Through my life, I have seen several different approaches to Indigenous people’s rights and importance in Australia. I have been fortunate enough to visit Ayers Rock and undertake a tour which allowed me to see Aboriginal culture in art and drawings as well as hearing Dreamtime stories from guides. I have also witnessed family friends who have been severely racist and disrespectful of Indigenous heritage and history. I also was lucky to work with some Indigenous students who were in Reception during my Professional Experience 1, and I was able to see first-hand how a culture clash can affect a student’s behaviour. I feel that even before entering this course, I have had the privilege of being able to observe both positives and negatives

Tourism has several impacts on many different aspects of Bali’s society. Tourism has impacted on the already existing, social, economic, cultural and environmental processes of the island. For example, as a result of tourism the pace of urbanisation has rapid increased and tourism has sped up the process of economic development.

The Aboriginal and Torres Striate Islander population are spread across all parts of Australia, from large urban cities to small country towns, from the remote tropical north of Australia to the fringes remote communities of the central deserts. Indigenous Australians speak a multitude of languages and belong to hundreds of distinct ancestral groups. Therefore the health and welfare of Indigenous people living in large urban cities are different to those that are living in small country towns and again different to those living in the remote tropical north and those in the outskirts of towns in the central deserts. I will be conducting an extensive literature review of existing papers and data from government agencies on the social determinants

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a long and rich history in Australia. In the community in which I live, and hopefully will be working, many programs and events have been set up to support, encourage and maintain the qualities and efforts of the original owners of this land. Browsing through the council website, I was able to find information relating to the Aboriginal people who once lived in the western parts of Melbourne, they were the ‘Yalukit Wilum, a name meaning 'river camp' or 'river dwellers'.’ The council has provided links to a book written about their lives which details their cultural practices, their religious beliefs, their customs, key events in their calendar and other important information.

In Aboriginal Traditions and Policy, the presentation group that I was part of consisted of Ashleigh, Tam, Jy, Lana, Khoi and myself. We chose Gertrude Street (a.k.a “The Dirty Mile”) to be our chosen site to research. Gertrude Street belonged to the Woiworung Tribe and was Melbourne’s first suburb after being separated from Melbourne City in 1858 (Fitzroy History Society 2018). It was known as ‘The Dirty Mile’ or ‘The Black Mile’, as it “was home to some legendary black pubs, and later, the Aboriginal community's own health, housing and legal organisations.” (Allam 2010). Our group used the Fitzroy Aboriginal Heritage Walking Trail brochure, created by the City of Yarra, as a guide which took us to the many places in Gertrude Street which

Communities will vary according to the location, environment and resources - each having their own unique cultural practices, languages, beliefs, knowledge (Qm.qld.gov.au, 2018). ‘Close the Gap’ is a government plan that intendents to decrease disadvantage among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It aims to reduce - life expectancy, child mortality, access to early childhood education, educational achievement, and employment outcomes. It is an obligation made by all Australian governments to attain Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality within 25 years (Healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au, 2016). Developing cultural awareness around the more effective revenues of creating outcomes across education, health and employment is another way of being aware of the different cultures.

Agriculture and tourism plays a vital role in the economy of Australia. Both of this wide spreading industries are intertwined amongst oneself both playing major role for one another. When tourism becomes established in agrarian economy, a common perception is that tourism will drive out agriculture. However such result is not pre-ordained. While tourism may increase the costs of agricultural production, the land owners and laborers benefit from increased resource values, wages and an improved infrastructure. Tourists and tourism induced improvements in marketing system encourages the production of non-traditional, high value agricultural commodities. Tourism also stimulates landscaping and a host of agriculture-based service enterprises, bringing about profound positive changes that offset decrease in traditional agriculture.

Tourism is an endeavour sought by an individual or a party of individuals, which leads to a movement from one place to another with the idealism of a specific task, to visit a place or several places with the primary purpose of achieving entertainment and increasing knowledge of countries, cultures, and their history. The expression ‘largest industry in the world’ is universally used with mention to tourism, ensuring its recognition as the largest generator of wealth (over 11.7% of the global gross domestic product) and employment (7% of the world’s jobs); this shows that tourism is indeed an important industry that depends on culture and legacy.(Budeanu, 2002) Vancouver is feasibly one of the most prevalent tourist destinations in Canada

Key information about the demographics of domestic consumers participating in Aboriginal tourism experiences, as well as their general attitudes towards participating in Aboriginal tourism experiences.

As mentioned by Rimmington & Morrison (2009), the assistance from different parts of the world presents a new and diverse outlook for future research including theoretical innovations and revelations, cultural and environmental aspects, tourist destination and other ecotourism and recreational aspects of tourism and hospitality industry (Brotherton,

The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry