Reports TASMANIA MARKET REPORT


Te casino offers gaming via its main casino floor or via the Boardwalk gaming floor. Tere are 16 table games and 554 EGMs (as of July 2022). Tere are slots from 1c to $1 play with linked and progressive jackpots.


In 1979 the Federal Group secured a second casino licence in Tasmania and opened the Country Club Casino and Resort in Launceston in 1982 which became Australia’s third oldest casino.


Tere are two gaming floors offering 12 table game, 535 EGMs, TASkeno and TAB facilities.


Te resort offers accommodation via the Country Club resort with hotel rooms plus there are adjacent villas (self-contained accommodation) which were acquired by the company some years later. Tere are also bars, restaurants, and a golf course.


A LOOK AT TASMANIA


Two hundred years ago a ticket to Australia meant your luck had run out. And the most harrowing destination was said to be Tasmania’s Port Arthur, one of the country’s 11 penal colony sites. Tis was actually the second colony to be established by the British in 1803 after New South Wales was chosen as the first penal colony base in 1788.


Between 1830 and 1877 some 12,500 convicts served their time at Port Arthur and it developed a reputation for its hardship and severity of punishments. It housed re-offenders and major criminals mainly because the only connection at the time to mainland Australia was via a small strip of land less than 100m wide lined by guard dogs and shark infested waters, so escape


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was considered more challenging.


Te transportation system of shipping major and minor convicts overseas, to relieve pressure on an overcrowded British prison system, meant some 166,000 convicts were transported to Australia between 1788 and 1868.


Much of Australia’s infrastructure at the time from roads to bridges were built by convicts and Tasmania has the largest collection of convict buildings and infrastructure of all the states. Today the ruins of Port Arthur can be found inside Tasmania National Park and it is conserved as an open air museum.


Te island state of Tasmania is located about 240km off the south coast of Australia and separated by the Bass Strait. It is the 26th largest island in the world but Australia’s least populous state with just 569,825 residents. State capital and largest city, Hobart, houses around 40 per cent of the population who live in the Greater Hobart area.


Before British colonisation, Tasmania’s main island was inhabited by Aboriginals for up to 40,000 years and the island was cut off from mainland Australia some 12,000 years ago after rising sea levels and the Aboriginal people became isolated.


Under British rule it became a separate colony under the name Van Diemen’s Land in 1825. Te Constitution of Tasmania was changed in 1855 and a year later the colony changed its name to Tasmania and in 1901 it became a state of Australia.


Tasmania has the second smallest economy in Australia most significantly made up of tourism,


Between 1830 and 1877 some 12,500 convicts served their time at Port Arthur and it developed a


reputation for its hardship and severity of punishments. It housed re-offenders and major criminals mainly


because the only connection at the time to mainland


Australia was via a strip of land less than 100m wide.


agriculture and aquaculture, education, and healthcare. Eco tourism is a booming industry and some 42 per cent of its land is protected in some form of reserve.


Visitors to Tasmania for the year ending June 2022 amounted to 797,300 – an increase of 39 per cent on the previous year but still way off the 3.5 million visitors pre-Covid in 2019.


Total nights were up 50 per cent on 2021 to 8.74 million and visitor spend was $2.39bn – an increase of 64 per cent on 2021 and almost at the 2019 levels.


Te 4th quarter of 2022 (April-June) apparently set a new record in visitor expenditure up 63 per cent on 2019 data to $846.9m with nearly 300,000 visitors that quarter.


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