Tourism
The historic precinct of the base attracts a very high number of visitors each to look over this unique 'town' and to view the many local attractions including the Woomera Range Missile Park, Heritage Centre, History Museum; and several other attractions such as Butement Square, the Eldo Hotel (formally the headquarters for European Launch Development Organisation), and the local observatory. The South Australian Tourism Commission which can be viewed at: lists over half a million visitors into the region each year. In 2008, SA Tourism estimated in its annual report that approximately 65,000 tourists a year visted Woomera, with about half of that number going on to visit Roxby Downs (location of the BHP Olympic Dam Mine).
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“In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.”
—Robert Runcie (b. 1921)