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The release by Tourism Research Australia of the 2016-17 Regional Tourism Satellite Accounts (available here) confirms the poor performance of tourism in the TNQ region that we’ve been discussing for some time.
The graphic below (from TEQ) highlights the problems.Tourism Gross Regional Product (GSP) fell in TNQ by 1.7% while it was up 3.9% across the State as a whole.
Looking at the relative performance of all the regions’ tourism sectors we can see how poorly TNQ, Northern, centred on Townsville, and (to a lesser extent) Sunshine Coast did during 2016-17 compared to the year before. What makes this more concerning is that tourism accounts for 10.8% of TNQ’s total GRP while it is only 3.5% in the Northern region; even in the Sunshine Coast it is only 7.6%. Only in the Whitsundays is this percentage higher (15.7%) than in TNQ. TNQ therefore stands out as the only region where the tourism industry accounts for more than 10% of total GRP and yet saw falls across all measures.
| Tourism Region | Consumption % chg |
GRP % chg |
Total Employment % chg |
| Brisbane | +10.8 | +9.0 | +7.4 |
| Gold Coast | -0.4 | +1.3 | -0.6 |
| Bundaberg | +21.1 | +17.6 | +15.3 |
| Central QLD | +4.5 | +4.9 | +3.8 |
| Darling Downs | +6.5 | +6.6 | +4.7 |
| Fraser Coast | +19.1 | +16.3 | +14.7 |
| Mackay | +20.8 | +16.0 | +15.2 |
| Northern | -16.3 | -10.8 | -12.6 |
| Outback | +10.2 | +9.5 | +8.8 |
| Sunshine Coast | -2.3 | -0.4 | -2.3 |
| TNQ | -3.5 | -1.7 | -3.4 |
| Whitsundays | +5.0 | +5.6 | +4.6 |
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July 7th, 2018 at 6:38 am
The problem to note here is Whitsundays +5% or so in a year which includes Cyclone Debbie and immediately following quarter.
July 7th, 2018 at 6:47 am
Fair point Mark, although this doesn’t detract from the poor performance in TNQ. Thanks for the comment.