ABSTRACT
This chapter describes and contrasts tourism activity and management approaches on the Gold Coast with those in the World Heritage-listed Lamington National Park, a remnant rainforest which is located within easy access to the Gold Coast beach and entertainment tourism strip. The ‘green’ hillside backdrop to the ‘gold’ of the Gold Coast ‘beach strip’ provides significant visual amenity to enhance the tourism attributes of the Gold Coast (Faulkner and Noakes 2002). While the Gold Coast is a destination well known to tourism researchers and only briefly described here, the Lamington National Park is much less visited, and merits more attention than it has so far received from tourism academics.
