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services (15.9%) and professional, scientific and technical services industries (13.4%) as
shown in Table 11 in Appendix 3.


2.4.5 Tourism sector
In the 2005/06 year total tourism sales in Noosa Shire was $416.31m and the total value added
was $231.13 million according the .id Community Demographic Resources, increasing to
$463.67 million total tourism sales and $266.97 million value added in the 2019/20 year.


2.4.5.1 Visitor nights
There were 3,582,686 domestic visitor nights and 698,151 international visitor nights in Noosa
Shire, with an additional 1,060,901 domestic day trips for the 2019/2020 year. This was down
from the 2018/2019 year of 3,950,072, 976,2017 and 1,288,879 respectively, a result of
COVID-19 restrictions commencing from March 2020.
For the 2019/20 year, .id Resources Demographic identified domestic visitor nights
represented 67.1% of total visitors, international visitor nights represented 13.1% and
domestic day trips represented 19.9% of visitors to Noosa Shire, as shown in Figure 9 in
Appendix 3.
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, as shown in Figure 10 in
Appendix 3.
2.4.5.2 Visitor spend
The 2019-2020 Tourism Noosa Annual Report identified the Noosa Region had achieved
record-breaking visitation and spend for the first three quarters of the 2019-2020 financial year
with almost $1.2 billion in total annual spend from domestic and international overnight visitors
and day-trippers as shown in Figure 11. Before the full impact of COVID-19 and associated
travel restrictions were truly experienced, there was a record spend for March 2020.


Figure 11 Annual increase in visitor spend in Noosa, Year ending March 2020




Source: Tourism Noosa Annual Report 2019/2020




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