Brisbane City has a serene environment with beautiful natural sceneries. Thanks to the existence of these natural features, Brisbane city is now considered a major tourist destination in Australia. These beautiful features have greatly enhanced such outdoor recreation activities as picnicking, nature study, canoeing, kayaking, and fishing. Brisbane city has ensured proper exploiting of these resources, even as it seeks to protect the social, environmental, and economical values of the city.
Although the city is not built along the sea, Brisbane local council has built an artificial beach downtown. The Southbank area as it is referred is renowned is quite popular with tourists and Brisbane residents as well. The area offers diverse economic activities such as performers, craft markets, picnics, and restaurants to its visitors. The area is also known for its clean waters, thereby offering swimming opportunity to visitors in its three different pools.
Brisbane city is regarded as a safe place both during the day and at night. The city offers favorable night life, with modern facilities such as bars and casinos. These facilities are equipped with appropriate gambling machines and common casino games. Brisbane has a shopping centre located on Queen Street. The shopping center has numerous shops that offer all sorts of accessories, ranging from eateries to cinemas.
Night life in the city is superb, with numerous alternatives such as entertainment great dining venues. As a popular tourist destination, Brisbane is known to harbor fabulous night life, and particularly on Fridays and Saturdays. The clubs and restaurants in the city provide excellent wines and foods to different visitors (Portal Oceania.com, 2000).
For those visitors who do not appreciate visiting the restaurants and clubs during the night, Brisbane gives them an opportunity to feed the dolphins at night (Portal Oceania.com, 2000).
The infrastructure in the city is superb, thereby facilitating the movement of the people from one destination to another.
Brisbane city has the largest economy in Australia. The city has recorded tremendous economical growth over the past years. The prevalent white color industries in the city entail financial facilities, information technology, and public sector administration. These industries are mainly concentrated in the city’s central business district. Blue color industries present in Brisbane include paper milling, petroleum refinery and metal working, among others.
Brisbane city is expected to undergo a tremendous transformation very soon with a view to making it the biggest city in Australia. A recent population prediction by Queensland government’s planning Forecasting indicates that the residential population of Brisbane Local Government Area will increase from 980,000 to approximately 2 million by 2026. Similarly the population of Brisbane Statistical Division will increase from 1.8 million to 2.4 million between 2004 and 2026.
There is a prediction that by 2026, the employment in the Local Government Area will increase from 585,000 in 2004 to a high of 850,000 in 2026. This growth is predicted to be facilitated by the sustained growth of the Queen’s mining industries which are supplied with goods and services from Brisbane. The development of green fields and redevelopment of the current residential areas in Brisbane will be important in order to accommodate the increased population.
Instead of the tourism industry remaining as the leading economical activity in Brisbane, other industries such as property and business services, retail, manufacturing and constructions will overtake tourism and become very important economical activities in Brisbane by the year 2026.
It is predicted that the manufacturing industry will be the leading Brisbane export followed by property and business services industry by 2026. Petroleum products, chemicals, metal products and food and beverages will play an important role in ensuring the realization of the presumed growth in the Brisbane manufacturing export (Brisbane City Council Information, 2006).
The growth of Brisbane city will be promoted by encouraging and attracting investments and jobs in the city. Proper investment will ensure Brisbane firms are positioned accordingly to compete well in the global market. Good performance by Brisbane firms will result to an increase in the city’s output, thereby promoting the expansion of these firms. This will in turn offer jobs to the increasing population in Brisbane.
In order to realize the required export growth so as to ensure minimal unemployment within the city, billion of dollars will be used for direct investment in efficiency and capacity. Moreover, there will be need to increase equipments, plant and technology in the region to boost performance. The infrastructure within the city needs to be extended to promote communication. This will in turn greatly boost efficiency as a result of enhanced performance (Brisbane City Council Information, 2006).
The future Brisbane city will be characterized by an advanced transport network that comprise of several highways and a large mass transit network that provides several modes of transport. Brisbane will modify its Airport to reflect standards that are linked with other international airport hub.
It is important to make sure that it is well connected with similar international Airports from regions such as London, and New York, among others. Brisbane will also have an advanced communication infrastructure such as fiber optics which is widely used by transnational corporations. In addition, the city planning will utilize the available new tracts of land for purposes of development (Botton, 2009: More, 2009).
These developments will be associated with the increased degradation of the natural environment in Brisbane. Acceleration of the manufacturing industry will entail more use of fossils fuels which will result in greater environmental pollutions. Similarly, there will be a notable degradation of land as new land is made available for development to accommodate the increased population (Brisbane City Council Information, 2006).
To negate the profits that are likely to be lost through decreased tourism activities along the Brisbane natural features which are likely to be destroyed with the coming of the forecasted growth, Brisbane tourism industry will opt to substitute its outdoor recreation facilities by introducing new indoor recreation activities.
This will in effect signify the adoption of a new culture. The Brisbane city will adapt a culture that is associated with the developed cities such as New York and Los Angeles. The city will institute renowned cultural institutions characterized with high endowments such as orchestras, notable museums and galleries, music accompanied by stripers and magnificent nightlife. The introduction of these new facilities will help to maintain Brisbane as a distinct tourist attraction destination (Sassen, 1997).
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