The given table illustrates the number of people came to a wide range of World Heritage regions in Australia from 1996 to 2000
Overall, it can be seen that while the figure for people visiting the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserve and Macquarie Island decreased, the opposite was true for those who came to the remaining sites. Another notice point is that the Great Barrier Reef remained the most visited area over the period.
What stands out first is that the number of visitors who came to the Great Barrier Reef and Central Eastern Rainforest Reserve was much higher than the others. To be specific, the Great Barrier Reef welcomed 1,670,000 visitors in 1996. After that its figure rose significantly to 3,200,000 in 2000 , making it the site with the highest number of visitors throughout the period. According to Central Eastern Rainforest Reserve’s reports, in 1996, the number of people was 810,000. Despite the decrease in the following two years, it finished as the second largest visitor statistics at the end of the period, accounting for 770,000.
Looking at the Blue Mountains , Tasmania Wilderness, and Shark Bay’s analysis , those figures rose steadily and continuously over the period , starting at 526,000; 450,000; 84,000 in 1996 respectively and reaching at 581,000; 483,000; 89,000 at the end of the period
Finally , Macquarie Island was the region that had the lowest visitors throughout the period. In 1996, the number of visitors was only 350 and declined by 20 in the following two years. Although its figure rose again to 330 at the end of the period, Macquarie island still maintained the least visited site