The Tourism Investment Monitor 2016 report released today confirms that Tasmania’s tourism industry is continuing to boom.
The report shows there was $509 million put in Tasmania’s tourism investment pipeline for 2015 - a remarkable 47 per cent increase on 2014 levels. This compares exceptionally well against the national tourism investment increase of just 12 per cent.
Of tourism investment in Tasmania, 66 per cent was identified as arts, recreation and business investment, 22 per cent was tourism accommodation, and 12 per cent was in aviation infrastructure.
This very strong result reflects the high confidence in Tasmania’s award-winning tourism industry, which supports thousands of Tasmanian jobs and is a major contributor to our economy.
Tasmania has what the world wants, there have been more visitors to the State than ever before in the past year, and we will continue to grow the industry to help reach our goal of 1.5 million visitors to the state by 2020.
The Tourism Investment Monitor can be found here: https://tra.gov.au/documents/Economic-Industry/Tourism_Investment_Monitor_2016.pdf
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