{"id":581,"date":"2012-02-25T20:09:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T20:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/?p=581"},"modified":"2012-02-25T20:09:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T20:09:58","slug":"581","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/02\/25\/581\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism Western\u00a0Australia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tourism.wa.gov.au\/Policies_Plans_Strategies\/Infrastructure_dsf\/Pages\/Roads_Infrastructure.aspx\">site\u00a0<\/a>suggests that road infrastructure is crucial to the spread of tourism beyond major gateways. According to a study done by Tourism Research Australia, driving holidays make up 77-93 percent of domestic overnight trips taken in Australia. Below is a tourism map that indicates the highways, major state roads, and other roads and tracks in Australia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_583\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/02\/Australia-Maps-states-cities-and-regions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-583\" class=\"size-full wp-image-583\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/02\/Australia-Maps-states-cities-and-regions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/02\/Australia-Maps-states-cities-and-regions.png 632w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/02\/Australia-Maps-states-cities-and-regions-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/02\/Australia-Maps-states-cities-and-regions-397x300.png 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highways, major state roads, and other roads and tracks. Photo credit: http:\/\/www.altiusdirectory.com\/Travel\/australia-tourism-map.html<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While many main roads already exist, Tourism Western Australia suggests an investment into road construction and improvements. Increased infrastructure has the potential to increase tourism; however, are consequences such as environmental impacts being taken into consideration?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism Western\u00a0Australia\u00a0site\u00a0suggests that road infrastructure is crucial to the spread of tourism beyond major gateways. According to a study done by Tourism Research Australia, driving holidays make up 77-93 percent of domestic overnight trips taken in Australia. Below is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/02\/25\/581\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6555,8483],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-roads","tag-tourism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}