This is an independent study focusing on the economic impact of tourism in the broader geographic context of the Gold Coast Tourism Region by all visitors to the region. It is based on official 1998/99 Commonwealth and State government statistics. The study provides an analysis of economic input-output tables for the Gold Coast Tourism Region in the context of tourism.
This paper reports on the development and application of a methodology to convert large scale data such as the International Visitor Survey (IVS) and the National Visitor Survey (NVS) into a format that can be used at the local level. The most significant contribution of this disaggregation technique is that it can bring a wide body of data including all that which is incorporated in the IVS and NVS as well as Census and other geographically based data into a highly focused analysis of a small, local area; an activity which has not been feasible with existing public datasets.
by Paul A Whitelaw and Leo K Jago
