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

       to public facilities. The impacts individuals felt and their perceptions of the impact of
       the community as a whole associated with tourism were somewhat negative…
       In addition, respondents noted that other disruptions from tourism can include
       increasing property values and the price of goods and services (around 80%), and
       impacting the environment through litter, pollution and/or natural damage to area
       (75%). Respondents noted that, on average, the individual impact of these impacts
       were not large, but that there were somewhat negative impacts for the environment
       from a community perspective…
       Around 63% of respondents felt that the character of the region had changed, but the
       impact on individuals and their perception to the community as a whole was negligible.
       Less than half the respondents felt that tourism was associated with people behaving
       inappropriately, and less than a third of respondents felt that too much public money
       was spent on developing facilities for tourists that should otherwise go to local public
       facilities and services.
       With regard to other demographic and locational characteristics, people who lived in
       Tewantin and the Hinterland felt that there were more negative impacts on property
       values and the cost of goods and services when compared with their coastal
       counterparts.


Table 14 in Appendix 4 outlines the general positive and negative comments about tourism
from residents identified in the report.
Business views on tourism
The Value of Tourism Report identified the views on tourism from business in more detail. The
report and Figure 14 in Appendix 4 had the following findings:
       Businesses that are likely to have a direct impact from tourism indicated that their
       turnover from interstate was likely to be twice as large as those businesses that have
       an indirect impact from tourism… with over 75 percent indicating that they would be
       less profitable without tourists – and of these, 42 percent indicated that they would
       cease operations without tourists.
The Value of Tourism Report survey of businesses highlighted some interesting matters
around staff, particularly around securing affordable housing, of which 55% of businesses
offering an opinion on the matter identifying it was an issue with concerns around affordability
and supply, and relativity to low wages. Suggestions were also made on how to tackle the
issues below:
       … Of those who felt there were issues associated with obtaining affordable housing in
       Noosa, general comments indicated the following:
      Housing and accommodation is expensive generally, and there is a shortage of
       options, particularly in coastal areas.
      Many staff live outside Noosa because of affordability issues. Due to this, people need
       to travel further to work and must have cars due to affordability issues. This increases
       parking issues, and parking is difficult.
      Affordability issues are exacerbated because of the low wages in the service sectors.
      Young people find it difficult to remain living in Noosa due to affordability as do working
       families.
      Some people offered suggestions regarding the needs for staff housing. This included
       supporting:




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