He was involved in a number of other gambling and tourism ventures, notably Crown Casino in Melbourne.
Indigenous tourism ventures incorporating the controlled use of homelands are now showing signs of success for a select number of Yolngu.
There are just a few places to stay and eat and money from tourism ventures is ploughed back into restoring temples and houses.
Black water rafting, where the participants float through caves on tyre inner tubes, was an early tourism venture and has become extremely popular.
The Norotshama River Resort is located on the farm as a tourism venture.
He took over the project and won approval to use the line for the new tourism venture, the Napa Valley Wine Train, after years of local opposition.
He said he believes it will succeed as a tourism venture.
Graduates with a specialism in Tourism and Leisure may take up employment in the management of tourism ventures, or in managing tourist flows.
In this year students apply higher-level business, analytical and technological techniques to management within the hotel operations and tourism ventures.
Without the restoration project, his tourism venture collapsed.