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

The following data sources were used:
      Noosa Council rates database – properties identified as undertaking transitory
       accommodation and paying the tourism levy;
      Tourism Noosa survey of members – identified properties within resorts and unit
       complexes operating short-term accommodation;
      BNB Guard were engaged by Council to undertake website searches for properties
       listed as available for short-term accommodation on online booking platforms;
      online searches for properties listed as available for short-term accommodation
       including real estate and property management agencies, holiday management sites
       and online booking platforms.
The terminology used in describing various forms of tourist accommodation in the Tourism
Carrying Capacity Analysis includes:
Short-term accommodation: This definition includes all forms of self-contained accommodation
(dwellings) including dwelling houses, duplexes, townhouses and apartments, being used for
visitors or tourists for less than 3 month stays.
Secondary dwellings: This definition refers to the use of a second self-contained dwelling on
the same lot as another primary dwelling, for short-term accommodation, being the use of the
secondary dwelling for visitors and tourists for less than 3 months.
Guest Suite: This definition refers to home hosted styles of accommodation including a room
within a dwelling used for short-term accommodation, while the host remains in residences
during the guest stay, being the use of the room for visitors and tourists for less than 3 months.
Hotel, motel, cabins, retreats: The use of these terms refers to other tourist and visitor
accommodation with premises that are not self-contained within a hotel, motel, cabin or retreat
style accommodation.


2.5.2.1 Supply, diversity and distribution of tourist accommodation
A total of 6,211 different tourist accommodation type dwellings/ sites/ suites/ rooms (including
short-term accommodation of dwellings) and 315 backpacker beds were identified and verified
as operating for commercial gain in Noosa Shire as part of the Tourism Carrying Capacity
Analysis in April 2020.
As to be expected, the majority of tourist accommodation was located within the coastal area
and concentrated around Noosa River and the beaches. A significant 76.7% of the tourist
accommodation offer was provided in the form of short-term accommodation (self-contained
dwellings) comprising apartments, townhouses and dwelling houses and to a lesser extent
duplexes, secondary dwellings and home hosted accommodation. The most common type
of dwelling used for short-term accommodation were apartments providing 43% of the total
supply of tourist accommodation.
Whilst the hinterland / rural areas provided a diversity of tourist accommodation types, it
represented a much smaller more dispersed percentage of overall tourist accommodation offer
in Noosa Shire.
Of the total tourist accommodation offer across Noosa Shire, hotel and motel rooms and cabins
contributed just 10.6% of all available accommodation, and camping, caravan and RV sites
contributed 12.7%.
Table 17 provides a breakdown of accommodation types and number being used for tourist
accommodation across Noosa Shire and as a percentage of total tourist accommodation. Map
1 shows the spatial distribution across Noosa Shire.




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