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TEST 3 – Eco-Resort Management Practices
Ecotourism is often regarded as a form of nature-based tourism and
has become an important
alternative source of tourists. In addition to providing the traditional resort-leisure product, it has been
argued that ecotourism resort management should have a particular focus on best-practice environmental
management. an educational and interpretive component, and direct indirect contributions to the
conservation of the natural and cultural environment (Ayala. I996).
Conran Cove Island Resort is a large integrated ecotourism-based resort located south of Brisbane on
the Gold Coast, Queensland. Australia. As the world’s population
becomes increasingly urbanised, the
demand for tourist attractions which are environmentally friendly, serene and offer amenities of a unique
nature has grown rapidly. Couran Cove Resort, which is one such tourist attractions, is located on South
Stradbroke Island, occupying approximately 150 hectares of the island. South Stradbroke Island is separated
from die mainland by the Broadwater, a stretch of sea's kilometres wide. More than a century ago. there was
only one
Stradbroke Island, and there were at least four Aboriginal tribes living and limiting on the island.
Regrettably, most of the original island dwellers were eventually killed by diseases such as tuberculosis,
smallpox and influenza by the end of the 19th century. The second ship wrecked on the island in 1894, and
the subsequent destruction of the ship (the Cambus Wallace) because it contained dynamite, caused a large
crater in the sand hills on Stradbroke Island. Eventually. the ocean bloke through the weakened land form
and Stradbroke became two islands. Conran Cove Island Resort is built on one of the world’s lew naturally -
occurring sand lands, which is home to a wide range of plant communities and one
of the largest remaining
remnants of the rare livistona rainforest left on the Gold Coast. Many mangrove and rainforest areas, and
Malaleuca Wetlands on South Stradbroke Island (and in Queensland), have been cleared, drained or filled
for residential, industrial, agricultural or urban development in the first half of the 20th century. Farmers
and graziers finally abandoned South Stradbroke Island in 1959 because the vegetation and the soil
conditions there were not suitable for agricultural activities.
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