Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2009: Tourism information sheet

Abstract

In 2006/07 Great Barrier Reef tourism contributed $5.1 billion to the Australian economy. During the same year, 54 000 full time positions across all industries were derived from the Great Barrier Reef. 92.7 per cent of these were employed in tourism. Tourism use of the Great Barrier Reef is consistently focused in a small portion of the Region (i.e. Cairns/Port Douglas and the Whitsundays). About 80 per cent of all tourism activity occurs in about seven per cent of the Region.