This report comes from a study that formed part of the CRC's project on Community benefits from tourism.

The study was designed to provide information to various government, non-government, commercial and community agencies so they could mitigate the adverse impacts, and improve the positive benefits, from tourism attracted by the Gibb River Road (GRR) in the Kimberley.

Its scope is intended to include a range of land tenures along the road from Derby to the Wyndham-Kununurra turnoff, including the Mitchell Plateau road and cattle stations, communities, tourist attractors and side roads along the route.

The study was undertaken to coincide with the time of peak tourist activity (July–August) in a year when self-drive tourism is expected to be at record levels.