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Interaction of commercial marine tourism with beaches
Management Concern: Low
Adequacy of Information: Good
Summary extracts from Outlook Report 2009
- Beaches are an important part of the coastal zone, especially as nesting grounds for seabirds and marine turtles. They also have an important recreational role for visitors to the Great Barrier Reef.
What do we know?
Relevant pages from Outlook Online include:
- Tourism Australia statistics
- Trends in tourist visitor numbers
- Impacts of tourism and recreational use on the Great Barrier Reef
- Tourism impacts on seabirds
- Beaches and tidal flats
- Coastal erosion
- Coastal processes
- Impact of beach lighting on flatback turtle nesting
- Impacts of artificial lighting on sea turtle survival
- Impact of development on nesting beaches at Mackay
- Disturbance of shorebird roosting caused by development
Existing policies and management actions
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Zoning Plan
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Plans of Management
- State Coastal Management Plan 2002
- Coastal Ecosystem Management Position Paper
- High standard tourism operations
- Ecocertification of Marine Park operators
- 15 year permits
- Tourist visitation to directly managed sites
- Policies and guidelines for managing tourism and recreational use
- Responsible Reef Practices
- Mon Repos turtle watching
- National codes of conduct for turtle and dugong tourism
Future management requirements
- Draft Queensland Coastal Management Plan
- Biodiversity strategy
- Overarching Great Barrier Reef Tourism Strategy
- Great Barrier Reef Recreation Strategy
Defined research questions
- There are currently no defined research questions for this topic. Research questions will be developed, giving priority to interactions/issues that are of most concern to management.
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