1.9 case study: The Best Job in the World
Tourist destinations have been marketed in a variety of interesting ways. In 2009 Tourism Queensland, an Australian state government agency responsible for marketing the north-eastern part of the continent, promoted the idea of the “Best Job in the World”.This unusual campaign pushed an idea that seemed too good to be true: an opportunity to “housesit the famously beautiful islands of the Great Barrier Reef” for half a year, with a home base on Hamilton Island.