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Great Barrier Reef in crisis: should your clients visit?

Destinations
Sarah Rodrigues
7 May 2025

One of Australia’s top attractions, the world’s largest coral reef system, needs visitors now more than ever before: here’s how to allay client concerns given the multiple threats the region faces

Great Barrier Reef

Milln Reef is a Green Zone within the Great Barrier Reef, known for its pristine condition

“All dead and brown,” sighs the tourist next to me on the ‘glassy’ (glass bottomed boat), as we glide over the corals on a warm February 2024 day, seemingly oblivious to the fact many coral colours simply range, naturally, from autumnal to pastel.