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Trends in tourism visitation to the Great Barrier Reef

McNamara and Prideaux., 2008:

"On an annual basis, 40.2% of respondents were domestic visitors while 59.8% of respondents were international visitors. This rate varied throughout the year. The percentage of domestic tourists completing the surveys dropped in Quarters 1 (January to March, 35.7%) and 4 (October to December, 32.5%), and increased substantially during Quarters 2 (April to June, 42.8%) and 3 (July to September, 47.3%). The survey therefore follows the trend of the ‘high season’ in North Queensland, particularly for domestic tourists, as being the period April through to September."

Citation and/or URL

McNamara, K. & Prideaux, B. 2008, Tourist Exit Survey First Annual Report: January - December 2007. Annual and Quarterly Patterns of Reef and Rainforest Tourism in North Queensland from Exit Surveys Conducted at Cairns Domestic Airport. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre on behalf of the Australian Government's Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility.

Spatial Coverage

Cairns

Temporal Coverage

January to December 2007

Update Frequency

Not applicable

Other Information

None 

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