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

2.4.5.3 Employment in tourism and hospitality sector
.id Community Demographic Resources data showed that in 2016, there were 2,811 people
who made up the tourism and hospitality workforce in Noosa Shire Council area, of this 45.3%
worked full-time and 54.7% worked part-time or were away from work as shown in Table 12 in
Appendix 3.
2.4.5.4 The Value of Tourism to the Noosa Community October 2019 - Survey
In July 2018, Tourism Noosa, in conjunction with Noosa Council, commissioned a report on
the value and impact of tourism on the Noosa Community prepared by C Change Sustainable
Solutions and SGS Economics and Planning (Value of Tourism Report). The report was
commissioned to provide input into the community, council and business deliberations on
sustainable tourism and what that meant for Noosa.
With the exception of the economic value of tourism, the Value of Tourism Report noted the
study was focussed on resident, business and visitor perceptions of impacts through a survey
as opposed to actual impacts. The extracts in this section relate to resident, visitor and
business views of tourism. The overall key findings of the report concluded that:
      tourism is Noosa’s number one industry sector and has important flow on impacts
       across the Shire;
      events in Noosa had a positive impact on the majority of businesses surveyed that are
       most likely to be impacted by tourism.
      tourism and events contribute to the social and cultural environment of Noosa in a
       significantly positive way.
      tourism is generally sensitive to the environment, but there is room for improvement.
      Tourism does have unintended negative consequences in Noosa, but the impact on
       the community and individuals for most of these elements is relatively low.

Table 13 in Appendix 4 outlines the potential economic, social and environmental beneficial
impacts and potential negative impacts associated with tourism outlined in the report. Of
particular note, a number of negative impacts associated with tourism were also identified for
housing and affordability, employment, casualisation of the workforce, dependency on tourism
jobs and a vulnerable economy, infrastructure impacts, population increases and congestion,
erosion of local identity, threats to natural resources and local impacts associated with noise
and litter.
Resident views of tourism
The Value of Tourism Report identified the views of residents on tourism in more detail. Of
particular note was that despite most respondents indicating tourism as being good for the
community and economy, over 84% agreed it can disrupt the lives of residents in relation to
traffic, parking and restricted access to public facilities and over 80% indicated it impacted
property values and the cost of goods and services. The report stated the following findings
with relevant supporting graphs identified as Figures 11, 12 and 13 in Appendix 4 of this report.
       Of the 300 responding, nearly 80% of all respondents indicated that they either strongly
       approved (36%) or slightly approve (43%) of tourism because it’s good for the
       community and economy. People aged between 30 -64 were more likely to strongly
       approve, and people aged up to 30 or over 65 were more likely to slightly approve.
       Only 4% of total respondents strongly disapproved of tourism in Noosa.
       … of the 300 respondents indicated that they were happy with tourism growth and
       would like to see it continue and/or grow – either as it is (27%) or in a different direction,
       such as environmentally responsive (23%)…. Of the remaining 50%, 42% indicated
       that they were happy with how tourism had grown to date, but did not want to see an
       increase. Only 8% indicated they would like to see less growth…
       Most respondents (over 84%) agreed that tourism can disrupt the lives of locals,
       particularly in relation to traffic, congestion and parking and restricting local’s access
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