Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Community Response to Tourism Proposals on Magnetic Island
Magnetic Island is both a suburb of Townsville and a tourist destination. Located 7 km offshore with an area of a little over 5,000 hectares some fifty-two per cent of the island is a National Park. The scenery is spectacular with several beautiful sandy beaches highlighting an otherwise rocky and rugged coastline, the whole made picturesque by the presence of and pockets of darker green vine thickets. The few bays with coastal flats are settled by a residential population of some 2,500 people enlarged by a thriving tourist industry. Large catamarans provide regular and rapid ferry services between the Townsville mainland community (around 10,000 people) and the island which provides many recreational opportunities for locals. There have also been many visitors from other parts of northern Queensland, especially western areas (it has sometimes been called ‘Mt Isa by the sea’ due to the periodic concentration of visitors from that city). In the past decade Townsville has experienced a steady growth of tourism and more recently a rapid growth in international tourism. Between 1983–84 and 1986–87 international tourist nights in the Townsville region trebled to 170,000 (total regional visitor nights were 3.5 million).
Community Response to Tourism Proposals on Magnetic Island
Magnetic Island is both a suburb of Townsville and a tourist destination. Located 7 km offshore with an area of a little over 5,000 hectares some fifty-two per cent of the island is a National Park. The scenery is spectacular with several beautiful sandy beaches highlighting an otherwise rocky and rugged coastline, the whole made picturesque by the presence of and pockets of darker green vine thickets. The few bays with coastal flats are settled by a residential population of some 2,500 people enlarged by a thriving tourist industry. Large catamarans provide regular and rapid ferry services between the Townsville mainland community (around 10,000 people) and the island which provides many recreational opportunities for locals. There have also been many visitors from other parts of northern Queensland, especially western areas (it has sometimes been called ‘Mt Isa by the sea’ due to the periodic concentration of visitors from that city). In the past decade Townsville has experienced a steady growth of tourism and more recently a rapid growth in international tourism. Between 1983–84 and 1986–87 international tourist nights in the Townsville region trebled to 170,000 (total regional visitor nights were 3.5 million).
Community Response to Tourism Proposals on Magnetic Island
Valentine, Peter S. (Autor:in)
Urban Policy and Research ; 7 ; 83-85
01.06.1989
3 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Unbekannt
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 1999
| DOAJ | 2021