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The Australian Tourism Export Council has called for an urgent summit meeting with the government to find ways for the tourism industry to combat climate change.
The call comes in the wake of a damning report on the Great Barrier Reef from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The report warns that Australia can expect worsening drought conditions and water shortages over the next 20 to 50 years and the loss of the Great Barrier Reef within two decades.
Australian Tourism Export Council spokesman Matthew Hingerty said the IPCC report would send a shiver down the spine of the tourism industry, and he had urged Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull to call a government-industry summit.
"The Great Barrier Reef is one of the pins of a $19.5 billion export industry and probably employs over 50,000 people directly," said Mr Hingerty.
"I wrote to Mr Turnbull last week and calling for an urgent meeting between himself, the tourism industry and the department of industry to look at ways that the tourism industry can contribute to the battle on climate change.
"And to look at better ways to communicate the findings of these reports to the (tourism) industry, on what impacts climate change will have on the industry."
Mr Hingerty said the tourism industry had been very slow off the mark in understanding the threat to its future.
"The tourism industry is a widespread industry. We have a large environmental footprint, not to mention the aviation sector, and these are issues we should have been working with the government on for a long time.
"We haven't been. It's time for us to start, so I am calling for an urgent summit between us and the government," he said.
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Common misspelling of Accommodation
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Agnes Water often called Agnes Waters and it is common for Lady Musgrave Island to be called Lady Musgrove Island and Captain Cook to Captian Cook and Capitan Cook or Captan Cook, with the Town of Seventeen Seventy now known as 1770 that would be hard to misspell for anyone. The correct spelling of Bundaburg Queensland, is Bundaberg. | | | | |
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The Great Barrier Reef runs along the Australian Queensland Coast, there are many towns from Central Queensland to Far North Queensland that offer Great Barrier Reef tours, such as fishing, scuba diving, snorkelling, cruises to Great Barrier Reef Islands, even Reef Walking and Surfing, some Islands on the Great Barrier Reef offer accommodation from Resort Style to Camping. The Southern End of the Great Barrier Reef begins from the Town of 1770 on the Queensland Discovery Coast, and extends North past Cairns, Port Douglas and Cook Town.
You will find places on this site that offer all of the above on The Great Barrier Reef as well as inland Rural areas, such as Mining Towns, Farm Stays and National Parkes, Gorges, Mountian Retreats and Beachside Towns. Use the Navigation links & Directories, if you prefer an other Langauge besides English you can click on your Counties Flag on the top right to translate all pages on Lets Connect to your prferred langauge.
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