Tourisminaustralia


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Australia is a very popular land for the tourists. It is the unique animal life, the climate, the beautiful landscape and the big cities that make it so popular. In the latest years the number of tourists has grown enormously. In 1996 came more than 4, 1 million tourists to visit Australia. In the 1980's and 1990's did the tourism created more than 100 000 employments for the Australian inhabitants, and the tourism stands for about 10 % of the country’s revenue. The most popular destinations are "Uluru", [|“Great Barrier Reef”] and [|"Gold Coast"]in Queensland, "The Australian Alps" and the big cities. The big tourism has a disadvantage to, it can hurt the environment. Especially is the “Great Barrier Reef” in danger, because boats destroy the corals with their anchors. Big building projects and a big number of visitors leads to pollution. Australia have also won international prices for tourist projects that don’t pollute the environment, this is called ecotourism.