The now defunct floating hotel project at John Brewer Reef in Queensland raised many topical, and often novel, challenges for coral reef management. This paper reviews the project history and examines the EIA and Monitoring programmes employed. It is concluded that the project was successful from an environmental perspective but failed as a business venture due to a number of singular factors in combination with inadequate market research. Two key recommendations for future developments of this type are: (a) the need to retain design and operational flexibility, and (b) the importance of an effective working relationship between all parties over the life of the project.
Conference paper
The Australian floating hotel project - a retrospective analysis
pp.1023-1028
University of Guam Marine Laboratory
Proceedings of the seventh International Coral Reef Symposium : Guam, Micronesia, 22-27 June 1992 / conducted by the University of Guam Marine Laboratory under the auspices of the Committee on Coral Reefs of the International Association of Biological Oceanographers and the International Society for Reef Studies (Guam, 22-27 June 1992)
1994
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Abstract
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- Title
- The Australian floating hotel project - a retrospective analysis
- Creators
- Peter Saenger - Southern Cross UniversityI M Dutton
- Publication Details
- pp.1023-1028
- Conference
- Proceedings of the seventh International Coral Reef Symposium : Guam, Micronesia, 22-27 June 1992 / conducted by the University of Guam Marine Laboratory under the auspices of the Committee on Coral Reefs of the International Association of Biological Oceanographers and the International Society for Reef Studies (Guam, 22-27 June 1992)
- Publisher
- University of Guam Marine Laboratory; Mangilao, Guam
- Number of pages
- 1023-1028
- Identifiers
- 1685; 991012820420202368
- Academic Unit
- School of Environment, Science and Engineering; Faculty of Science and Engineering
- Resource Type
- Conference paper