2017-04-11 P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 1 Housing Needs Assessment

From the perspectives of housing needs and the local economy, it is important that the
accommodation demands of tourists or visitors are taken into account in developing the New
Noosa Plan, and are planned for as far as possible given the land constraints in Noosa Shire, in
alignment with future needs.

Tourist/Visitor Accommodation
It is difficult to determine the amount of accommodation available to tourists and visitors in
Noosa Shire, and accommodation can take a number of forms. These include places of tourism
accommodation such as resorts, hotels, motels and bed and breakfast establishments
enumerated by ABS, as well as holiday homes, rooms in private dwellings or rental private
dwellings used either consistently or occasionally by visitors. The latter are all difficult to identify
with any certainty.

Accommodation establishments and rooms
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (2015) undertakes a survey of tourist accommodation
providers and publishes data at the SA2 level which can be combined to roughly represent the
Noosa Shire. The survey only includes tourist accommodation establishments with 15 rooms or
more. According to this data there were a total of 49 tourist accommodation establishments in
Noosa Shire in 2014-15 offering a total of around 2,000 rooms (Table 35). The majority of these
rooms were located in the Noosa Heads area (although there are a higher number of smaller
complexes in Noosaville.

Table 35. Accommodation establishments and rooms, ABS data, Noosa Shire, 2014-15

Area                                            July 2014 –
                                                 June 2015

Accommodation Establishments

Noosa Heads (SA2)                                    19

Noosaville (SA2)                                     23

Peregian (SA2)                                       3

Sunshine Beach (SA2)                                 4

Noosa Shire (approximate)                            49

Rooms

Noosa Heads                                        1,205

Noosaville                                          655

Peregian                                             68

Sunshine Beach                                       73

Noosa Shire                                        2,001

Notes: Excludes all tourism accommodation establishments with fewer than 15 rooms.
Source: ABS 2015 (cat. no. 8635.0);

In the year to 30 June 2015, these tourist accommodation establishments provided the equivalent
of 444,450 nights of accommodation (Table 36). This equated to a room occupancy rate of 60.9%
for the year, which was a fairly similar room occupancy rate to Queensland at 62.0%.




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