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Yulara () is an isolated town in Australia's Northern Territory. At the
2001 census, Yulara had a population of 1,799. More than three quarters of
the residents of Yulara are from either overseas or another Australian
state . The name is derived from a local Aboriginal word for howling and
dingos. It is 18 km by road from world heritage site Uluru and 55 km from
Kata Tjuta. It is located in the Northern Territory electorate of
MacDonnell and the federal electorate of Lingiari.
It is home to the busiest tourist resort in Australia , Ayers Rock Resort.
History In early 1970, the pressure of unstructured and unmonitored
tourism was having detrimental effects on the environment surrounding Uluru
and Kata Tjuta and the Northern Territory government agreed in 1973 to
relocate accommodation facilities to a new site. Yulara was created in 1984
as an infrastructure hub to support tourism to the Uluru-K
