Tourism and the Tasmanian community during COVID-19

The Tasmania Project’s second general survey asked a series of questions about tourism, COVID-19 policy responses, and their impacts. We wanted to know how Tasmanian residents regard the industry and its contribution to life in Tasmania. When should Tasmania reopen, and what changes in behaviour are expected?

Tourism workers, particularly casual workers, have been hit hard by the impacts of the Federal and State Government policy responses to COVID-19. In Tasmania’s North-West and West, residents had more stringent measures imposed upon them with a whole region ‘locked down’ for three weeks.