2021-12-13 GC Agenda - Item 8 -Attachment 1 - Housing Needs Assessment

with friends and family with fully equipped kitchens, multiple bedrooms and bathrooms, media room
and private outdoor entertainment space and a pool.
Accordingly the market for two or even three bedroom holiday units with modest kitchens and shared
recreation facilities is limited and unless individual owners regularly invest in the furnishings and
décor of their unit it becomes tired. Property investors may not favour the return on this option and
where there is such high demand for residential units, especially amongst retirees, increasing
numbers of units are being removed from letting pools and moving into the permanent rental market.
The Tourist Accommodation Zone has been applied where visitor accommodation and associated
businesses such as retail, hospitality and personal services prevail. It is designed to send a message
that accommodating and servicing visitors will be the priority in this zone. This is not intended to
negate the importance of resorts outside of this zone, however they are less likely to be concentrated
and accompanied by businesses.


16.3          Hostels converting to Rooming Accommodation
Since March 2020 Australia’s borders have been largely closed to international travellers and tourists
such as backpackers. Initially restrictions were placed on people travelling from mainland China from
1 February but soon after arrivals from all countries were stopped with some exceptions. Figure 32
below shows provisional statistics on international travel movements of non-Australian persons
arriving in Australia. It is specifically the number of international border crossings rather than the
number of people. There was a slight increase in 2021 when the travel bubble with New Zealand
was opened.


Figure 32 International Arrivals of Non-Australian Citizens




Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Overseas Travel Statistics, Provisional June 2021
As evident in Figure 33 below there was no particular mass exodus of international guests so there
remain some overseas travellers within Australia however their movement around the country has
been restricted due to closure of state borders and limited funds.




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