In a statement, Jones said: “This will be one of the most iconic tourism experiences in Australia. While it may be a first for Australia, underwater hotels already operate in Dubai, the Maldives and Tanzania. In June the Queensland government backed plans for a three-level pontoon and underwater hotel near Lady Musgrave Island on the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. This may be Australia’s first underwater hotel development, but it will not be its last. The resort will sit on a foundation thats. The hotels original plan was to be located 20 meters under water off. Guests will be able to sleep alongside marine life when Poseidon Underwater Resort opens its hotel in Fiji. Queensland’s tourism industry development minister, Kate Jones, stated that the redevelopment team had ensured the reef was protected. The hydropolis underwater hotel and resort is a proposed underwater hotel in Dubai. The project included replanting 4,000 pieces of coral, taken from old moorings, onto the existing reef walls. The submerged rooms are part of Reefworld Pontoon, a $10m structure built to replace tourism operator Cruise Whitsunday’s original pontoon on Hardy Reef, which was damaged during the cyclone.

Photograph: Russell Millard/Russell Millard Photography Visitors staring at fish in a Reefsuites suite.

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