The table illustrates the total visitor count for six different World Heritage destinations in Australia in the years 1996, 1998 and 2000.
Overall, tourism developed in the locations of the Great Barrier Reef, the Blue Mountains and the Tasmania Wilderness, while the opposite was true for the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserve. Additionally, the figure for visitors fluctuated in Shark Bay and Macquarie Island. Notably, Macquarie Island received the least number of visits throughout the examined period.
The most popular site in the three years was the Great Barrier Reef, starting at 1,670,000 visitors in 1996, after which this figure grew to 2,950,000 visitors in 1998 and ending at 3,200,000 visitors in 2000. In addition, the figure for the Blue Mountains and Tasmania recorded 526,000 and 450,000 visitors, respectively, which then shared a similar growing th pattern during the period. Meanwhile, the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserve, which ranked as the second favorite location across the three years, declined noticeably from the initial 810,000 visitors to 770,000 by the end of the period.
The remaining two sites both all experienced fluctuation and had fewer/smaller the least number of tourists in the three years. Exactly 350 people visited Macquarie Island in 1996, with a significant drop to 310 visitors in 1998, and two years later the figure was 330. At the same time, 84,000 individuals paid a visit to were at Shark Bay, which then increased to 102,000 people, before declining to 89,000 people.