Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Tourism Heritage Case Study: Rottnest Island, Western Australia
- In
- From Sailing Ships to Microchips: Inaugural Industrial Heritage Conference
- Imprint
- Institution of Engineers, Western Australian Division, West Perth, Western Australia, 1994, pp. 81-85
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0909421250
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.212912683590482
- Abstract
Rottnest Island, located 18 kilometres from Perth is an 'A' class Reserve managed on behalf of the Western Australian community by a statutory body, The Rottnest Island Authority. Rottnest experiences a semi arid Mediterranean style climate. The island hosts some 350,000 visitors annually of who 120,000 reside in accommodation ranging from camping to a youth hostel, through holiday homes to 4 star resorts. A further 70,000 visit on private vessels whilst some 160,000 experience the island as day trippers annually. Under its Act of Parliament, the Rottnest Island Authority is obliged to meet expenditure from within its own revenue base including maintenance and improvement of both the natural and built historical assets of the island. Visitor services are provided by both the Authority and the private sector, as lessees or licensees to the Authority.
Related Published resources
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- From Sailing Ships to Microchips: Inaugural Industrial Heritage Conference (West Perth, Western Australia: Institution of Engineers, Australia, Western Australian Division, 1994), 93 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0909421250. Details