Economic Impact of Tourism on Hobart's GDP

The assignment provides an overview of the tourism industry in Hobart, including its growth rate, key attractions, and types of tourism. It also discusses the economic impact of tourism on Hobart's GDP, citing statistics and references from relevant studies. The summary highlights the importance of tourism to the local economy and employment.

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Travel industry of Hobart
Hobart is one of the most populous
cities of the Tasmania’s island state. Travel
industry is one of the major contributors to
the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and
employment of the Tasmania’s economy.
Fluctuations in total number of visitors have
huge flow-on impact in this economy.
Recent evidences reflect that near about
6.1% of the people of Hobart are directly
employed in this sector (Abounoori, Akbari
and Ghavamipour 2012). Over the last few
years, there has been huge decline in this
tourism industry of this city owing to huge
difficulties. These difficulties involves that
impact of the global financial crisis (GFC)
and strengthening of Australian dollar,
which in turn makes it attractive as well as
affordable for the people in Australia to
travel overseas. One of the major factors
that impact the growth as well as
development of tourism sector in this city is
basically the quality of service. The tourism
industry of this city conducts Digital coach
program that provides huge assistance by
different method of instructions for business
that gives high service standard (Newsome,
Moore and Dowling 2012). This in turn
influences the impressions as well as
attitudes of the total number of visitors of
this city. The financial support of the Hobart
government plays a crucial role to the
tourism success in this city.
Number of international visitors
Recent study reflects that near about
894277 international visitors visited this city
in the year 2017. The graph below reflects
that this nation mainly experienced near
about 17% increase in total number of
international tourist in this state. This city
has positioned itself as highly favored
destination basically for the international
tourist (Abounoori, Akbari and

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Ghavamipour 2012). In fact, the growth rate
of tourism sector of this city has been quite
higher than national average. Thus it reflects
that this city has been leading in
international tourist growth rate generally of
the Australian states in the year 2017.
Figure 1: Total number of international
visitors in Tasmania
Source: (Jucan and Jucan 2013)
Visitor’s origin
The visitors coming in this city are
mainly from the New Zealand, China, USA ,
UK , and so on. Recent statistics reflects that
near about 28000 Chinese people visited this
nation last year. In addition, the interstate
visitors to this city are mainly from
Queensland, South Australia, NSW,
Victoria. Over the last few decades, it has
been seen that the interstates visitors are
quite less than the international visitors. The
Hobart government thereby adopts several
measures for attracting large number of
visitors especially by focusing on domestic
market.
Key attractions
The attractions of Hobart usually list
huge variety of natural as well as man-made
attractions. Some of the vital attractions of
this city are the national parks, museums,
wildlife sanctuary etc.
Types of tourism
There are different types of tourism
that occurs in this city are ecotourism,
cultural tourism, adventure tourism, business
tourism and so on (Fennell 2014). All these
kinds of tourism mainly focus on the natural

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areas, culture, business and visitors
participation in various adventures.
Accomodation options
The accommodation options are diverse
in this nation and thus this attracts large
number of visitors. These includes –
 Caravan and camping- There are
near about 50 caravan parks, some
of which are private ensuite for
motorhome travelers, cabin-style
accommodation etc.
 Farm stay- These farms offers
several accommodation options
thereby sharing family home to
luxury accommodation.
 Holiday cabins- This provides
rooms for the guests as well as
cooking facilities for festive
occasions and dinner parties.
 Resorts and Lodges-These resorts
are mainly located mainly on edge of
national parks or cliffed on top of
the ocean (Zeppel 2012). Each resort
in this nation are designed keeping in
mind discerning guests. Thus, these
resorts and lodges provides more
luxury accommodation than other
kinds of accommodation available in
Tasmania.
Economic impact of tourism on
GDP
Tourism is one of the
economic activities in several
countries across the globe. The
contribution of this industry to GDP
highlights on the internal spending
on travel and tourism (Jucan. and
Jucan 2013). This industry has huge
impact on the Hobart economy
mainly on GDP and total
employment. Tourism sector in this
nation directly as well as indirectly
contributes to near about $2.79
billion to the GDP of the nation. As a

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result, this improves the heath of this
economy. In addition, the business
that are directly as well as indirectly
involved in travel or toursim also
spends in several other economic
sectors, thus generating additional
economic effect.
Key tourism activities at Tasmania-
Hobart
Some of the important tourism
activities that occurs at Hobart involves-
 Exploring the island
 Wildlife night-spotting
 Touring to several
biodiversity hotspots
 Trekking in the forest
Locations that needs to be showcased in
Hobart
There are several locations in this
city that are required to be showcased. The
region of this country is one of the most
beautiful places for travelling or touring and
provides stunning views of the cities as well
as towns. This region of this country is also
the residence to the Tarkine. This is one of
the global huge wilderness experiences and
also Australia’s biggest expanse of
temperate rainforest in the globe (Scott,
Gössling and Hall 2012). In addition, there
is ongoing agriculture tradition in this
region, which has been evident from the rich
red soils as well as patchwork fields
throughout the region. There is also ideal
agricultural growing conditions in this
region and thus inspires the growers as well
as makers for producing best vegetables,
wines, dairy products etc (Hall, Scott and
Gössling 2013). This in turn will benefit the
tourists visiting in this city. In addition, this
location has also significant Aboriginal
heritage sites, which in turn attracts several
travelers and increase their stay. This region
is also known as the home to mainly Mount

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Wellington which is one of this city most
visited spot that offers good nature
experiences involving Orange Pipes.
Conclusion
The above study reflects that the
tourism sector of Tasmania (Hobart) has
developed over the years. This city has been
increasingly being identified as attractive
destination for visitors. The government of
this city is also committed in supporting this
sector by adopting niche strategies and
providing funding initiatives to help this
sector develop.

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