The 25-year strategic plan for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area 1994-2019 outlines the policy management and protection of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area in the next 25 years. It provides protection to make the reefs remain in a healthy state and ensure the future use of reefs for the future generation. This plan aims to maintain World Heritage value while allowing reasonable use of the resources. Marketing of Great Barrier Reef will discuss tourism from five parts, nature-based tourism, ecotourism, wildlife tourism, geotourism and culture & heritage tourism. 1. Nature-based tourism “Nature-based tourism is any type of tourism that relies on attractions directly related to the nature environment (Weaver, 2001, p. 16).” …show more content…
They look like a cross between dolphin and walrus. The tail is triangular like that of a whale. They move slowly in the sea and lack of dorsal fin is their distinguishing characteristic. The dugong is plant-eating mammal. They mainly can be seen at the coastal waters of the Great Barrier Reef lagoon where is abundant with their sea grass food (Marsh, 2008, p.357-358). 4. Geotourism Geotourism, also called geographically sustainable tourism, involve with Natural and built environments (Sadry, 2009). Geotourism aims at conservation and promotion of a natural area. Geotourism is sustainable tourism which focuses on an area’s geology and landscape as the basis for providing visitors engagement, enjoyment and learning. Geotourism can help the tourists to explore the full range of the geographical diversity. It includes many places such as geosites, geotrails, landforms, mine sites and caves. What’s more, geotourism also includes national parks, reserves, urban parks, world heritage areas (Robinson & Percival, 2011). The geotourism on the Great Barrier Reef includes visitation on beautiful islands, such as Daydream Islands which is famous for the beaches and rainforest, Dunk Island which has mixture tourism and national …show more content…
The indigenous people of the Great Barrier Reef region are Torres Strait Islander people who have lived there for over 60,000 years. They have unique maritime culture and traditions. To keep folklore alive, the aboriginal people retell their stories in songs, fables, dances, and cave painting. Nowadays, in order to continue the evolution of their traditional culture and connection to the country in the future, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People seek for chances to manage the marine estates and resources (GBRMPA, 2006). Indigenous participation tourism is about interpreting indigenous culture and stories to tourists. And usually the indigenous people invest or operate in the tourism directly. With the culture tourism development at Great Barrier Reef, it provides many opportunities for local people. Both tourism industry and indigenous community benefit from it (“Indigenous participation in tourism (GBRMPA),”