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

The Airbnb data showed decline in numbers of share economy accommodation was a trend
that started with the onset of COVID 19 with overall difference in numbers of 271 fewer
properties from Q4 2019 to Q2 2021. The following factors reported as contributing to the
declines:
       Migration of southerners and purchasing homes to reside in
       Owner occupiers moving permanently into their holiday homes
       High property prices and higher sales of properties that were investment houses –
        cashing in
It should be noted the data show in Table 48 in Appendix 11 is representative only of properties
on the Airbnb and Stayz platforms, and does not include a significant (probably double) amount
of properties managed and promoted as short term accommodation through other means.


3.5 Tourist Accommodation 2022

In April 2020 Council prepared the Tourism Carrying Capacity data analysis that identified the
total number of properties operating some form of tourist accommodation. The outcomes of
this are contained in section 2.5.2 of this report.
To determine any changes in the supply of tourist accommodation, and specifically short term
accommodation, since the commencement of NP2022, updated figures have been prepared
for October 2022.
Like the April 2020 data, only properties found and verified as operating short term
accommodation have been included in the data.
Improved data gathering through the new local law application process, the new transitory
accommodation rating system and improvements to the identification process by BnB Guard
have attributed to identifying properties operating short term accommodation, as well as
website search of holiday management businesses and online booking platforms.
Additional properties also identified themselves by gaining approval under the superseded
planning scheme process and confirming existing use rights.
It should be noted, that around 1000 properties identified as operating short term
accommodation in April 2020, changed ownership over the last 2 years, and unless located in
Hastings Street or a key visitor only resort site, their rating category defaulted to principal place
of residence or non-principal place of residences if permanently let. However, a large number
of these properties which changed hands in the last 2 years have been verified as continuing
to operate short term accommodation, without being included in and paying the transitory
accommodation rate or gaining local law approval.
The following sections provide updated data on tourist accommodation, and specifically short
term accommodation as at October 2022, with comparison commentary on changes since the
April 202 data.
The same terms were used to identify the tourist accommodation type as outlined in section
2.5.2 of this report.

3.5.1 Supply diversity and distribution
6566 different tourist accommodation types including dwellings/ RV camp sites/ hotel & motel
suites were identified and verified as operating some form of tourist accommodation, and 506
backpacker style beds.
Overall, there has been an increase in tourist accommodation available over the last 2 years
since the baseline data was collected in April 2020. In particular, the number of entire dwellings

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