KI Traveller's Levy Economic Impact Assessment - Kangaroo Island ...

Commercial-in-Confidence
KI Traveller’s Levy
Impact Assessment
FIGURES
Figure 1.1: Kangaroos Island and surrounds 4
CHARTS
Chart 1.1: Kangaroo Island industry profile 6
Chart 1.2: International visitor nights to KI by country of origin, 2008 7
Chart 1.3: Domestic overnight visitors to KI by origin, 2008 8
Chart 1.4: Overnight visitors to Kangaroo Island by length of stay, 2008 9
Chart 1.5: Main method of visitor transport on the island, 2007-08 11
Chart 1.6: Annual EMC collections 13
Chart 2.1: Rising price-elasticity of demand and tax efficiency 16
TABLES
Table 1.1: Population characteristics of Kangaroo Island 5
Table 1.2: Kangaroo Island visitation, 2007-08 6
Table 1.3: Expenditure by tourists on KI, average of three years to June 2007 7
Table 1.4: Visitors to Kangaroo Island by purpose of trip, 2007-08 8
Table 1.5: International visitor length of stay on KI by length of stay in Australia, 2008 9
Table 3.1: National park estimates of elasticity from the literature 19
Table 3.2: General travel elasticity estimates from the literature 20
Table 4.1: Weightings for international growth rate forecast 25
Table 4.2: Modelled price elasticity of demand 25
Table 4.3: Per-visitor expenditure by visitor type 11 26
Table 4.4: Option 1 modelling results 28
Table 4.5: Option 2 modelling results 28
Table 4.6: Option 3A modelling results 29
Table 4.7: Option 3B modelling results 29
Table 4.8: Option 4 modelling results 30
Table 4.9: Price elasticity sensitivities, Option 1, 2011 31
Table 4.10: Forecast demand growth sensitivities, Option 1, 2011 31
Table 4.11: Improved quality sensitivity 33