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

2.9.3.1 Overnight visitation and spend
Tourism Noosa’s 2019 – 2020 Annual Report (2019/20 TNR) identified that while COVID 19
restrictions impacted the tourism industry globally, the decreases Noosa saw were not as
significant as regional, state and national impacts. Domestic overnight spend and visitation
decreased less in Noosa than the Sunshine Coast and Queensland generally.
At the year ending June 2020, Noosa’s total number of visitors was down by 11.6% compared
to the rest of Queensland which was down by 19.3% and Australia, 18.8%. Total visitor spend
was down by 11.8% in Noosa, compared to the rest of Queensland at 18.8% and Australia at
18.7%


Figure 20 Annual Change in Domestic overnight visitation and spend – Noosa Shire




Source: Tourism Noosa Annual Report 2019/2020


Notwithstanding this, the 2019/20 TNR stated the suspension of direct flights from Auckland
to Sunshine Coast cut off the Sunshine Coast’s major international market, and the reduction
in capacity of Qantas and Jetstar severely impacted holiday travel to Noosa.
Statistics in the 2019/20 TNR for the year ending June 2020 contained domestic overnight and
day-trip information as no international data was available due to global border closures. The
annual figures include visitation from September, December 2019 and March 2020.
The Noosa region attracted just under 2 million domestic visitors in the year to June 2020,
including overnighters and day-trippers who spent almost $882m. This was a 15% decrease
in visitors and 11% decrease in spend on the previous year.




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