Tourism is one of the major industries in the Great Barrier Reef region.

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest reef systems, stretching along the East coast of Australia from the northern tip down at Cape York to the town of Bundaberg, is composed of roughly 2,900 individual reefs and 940 islands and cays that stretch for 2,300 kilometres (1,616 mi) and cover an area of approximately .

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park protects a large part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef from damaging activities.