Submissions

The Accommodation Association is pleased to provide the following submission to the Federal Government on the need to increase investment into the tourism industry in the next budget.

The Accommodation Association is pleased to provide the following submission to the Queensland Government’s Short-Term Resident Accommodation Industry Reference Group.

The Accommodation Association of Australia is pleased to provide the following submission to the Franchising Taskforce in response to the call for submissions on the Franchising Regulation Impact Statement

The Accommodation Association of Australia submission Inquiry into Short-Stay Accommodation in Western Australia.

The Accommodation Association of Australia (AAoA) is pleased to provide the following submission to the Federal Department of Environment and Energy responding to the request for further input into the DRAFT REPORT of the Independent review of the Commercial Building Disclosure Program

The Accommodation Association of Australia (AAoA) is pleased to provide the following submission to the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment responding to the New South Wales Government’s Short-Term Rental Accommodation, A new regulatory framework Discussion paper

The Accommodation Association of Australia does not support the bill passing Parliament in its current form. This is because the additional tax GST on accommodation bookings the legislation seeks to impose will fall on operators of accommodation businesses – not online travel agencies – making it a virtual bed tax. Effectively, this legislation will impose a new bed tax on Australia’s accommodation businesses of 3.75 per cent.

The Accommodation Association strongly supports the Australian Government making it unlawful for online travel agencies to impose price-parity clauses on tourism accommodation businesses in Australia, and the introduction of measures which ensure that large, offshore-based online travel agencies pay their fair share of taxation in Australia. The Accommodation Association of Australia opposes any legislative change whereby the burden of additional tax is passed back to bricks-and-mortar accommodation businesses which are located in Australia.

Future growth of the accommodation industry is in doubt if labour shortages in the industry cannot be addressed. Wage subsidies remain an attractive method of encouraging employers in the accommodation industry to hire people who are unemployed.

The number one priority when considering the regulation of tourism accommodation/short-term letting in Tasmania must be the safety and security of guests (consumers). Any building in which short-term letting is conducted must meet requirements under Class 3 of the Building Code of Australia.