2022-11-14 GC Agenda - Item 4 - Attachment 1 - Short Term Accommodation Monitoring Report 2022

The number of domestic visitor nights actually increased from the 2019/20 year which was
recorded at 3,582,686 domestic visitor nights as show in Figure 27 in Appendix 11.
The main reason for domestic and international overnight stays was for the purpose of
holidaying and then to a lesser extent visiting friends and relatives. Average occupancy of
available visitor accommodation was 59% to the year ending Jun 2021, up from 53% the
previous year.


3.4.5.2 Visitor spend
The 2020-2021 Tourism Noosa Annual Report identified the Noosa Region had achieved a
total spend (including day trips) of $1.06 billion, the highest since March 2020, and compared
to the record breaking 2019 year, whilst visitor numbers were down by 23% the total spend
was down just 2.8%. The Annual Report stated the year ending June 2021 had seen the
strongest domestic overnight visitor results since the start of COVID, with some measures
breaking pre-COVID records.
Figure 28 Visitor Spend in Noosa year ending June 2021




Source: Tourism Noosa Annual Report 2020/21


3.4.5.3 Employment in tourism and hospitality sector
.id Demographic Resources have not updated the tourism and hospitality workforce data from
2016, where there were 2,811 people who made up the tourism and hospitality workforce as
discussed in section 2.4.5.3.


3.4.5.4 Short term accommodation – share economy COVID impacts
Tourism Noosa received data on 16/2/2021 shared with Noosa Council regarding the share
economy for accommodation in Noosa and other coastal destinations. The data was reported
as being from a collection of sources including Airbnb and Stayz and businesses that manage
houses for holiday rentals. Significantly, the trends were not isolated to Noosa Shire but
experienced across all coastal holiday destinations.


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