Filling a need in East Coast tourism market
Cambria Green means more jobs and young people, writes Ronald Hu
CAMBRIA
Green Agriculture & Tourism Management stands ready to invest $140 million in the East Coast of Tasmania.
Our proposed development is for an integrated tourist destination at Dolphin Sands, north of Swansea. Cambria Green’s aim is to attract and service a tourism market not being serviced in the region. We make no apology that we are looking to attract well-todo Tasmanians, interstate visitors and international travellers. Once complete, Cambria Green will include: RESTORED Cambria homestead and surrounding English gardens, to be used as a wedding venue expected to host 50 events a year; LUXURY hotel accommodation, the Sky Resort, with 120 rooms. Plus 200 luxury villas and units; WORLD-CLASS golf course with practice facilities and clubhouse, expected to support 30,000 rounds a year; CONFERENCE centre expected to host 26 events with about 100 attendees each a year; and HEALTH retreat and temporary retirement facilities.
Many East Coast residents are excited Cambria will be restored, allowing Tasmanians and visitors to learn about an important part of the area’s history. We aim to build these facilities using Tasmanian builders and other contractors between 2021 and 2025. There will be major construction and operating investment, including: CONSTRUCTION: at $138 million but expected to rise; RESTORATION of historic values and maintenance at Cambria Homestead; OPERATIONAL spending in Tasmania estimated at $49 million a year, using local supplies of agricultural products, groceries, services and employees; VISITOR spending in the region estimated at $39 million a year; and CONTRIBUTION to the tourism brand of the region, encouraging more tourism businesses to the region.
Our economic modelling predicts 40-60 construction jobs in the first two years.
Cambria Green will employ at least 150 full-time staff and hopefully more. This is one of the major benefits: long-term employment opportunities for Tasmanians, particularly for East Coast residents.
The modelling also predicts skills and jobs development, improved business confidence and recreational benefits and significant population growth and demographic changes.
We expect to see younger people attracted to the region, and significant improvement of landscape values.
Tourism is an important contributor to the sustainable development of regional areas, advocated as a way to diversify economic conditions by providing employment and income in times of downturn in traditional industries such as agriculture and forestry.
The Tasmanian Government released T21, The Tasmanian Visitor Economy Strategy 2015-2020 to grow tourism with a partnership between public and private sectors. Its goal is to attract 1.5 million visitors and $2.47 billion in visitor spending annually.
The Government’s Access 2020 Strategy aims to increase domestic air and sea capacity and frequency, improve seasonal demand and increase international visitation, as well as introduce a small number of direct international flights.
We aim to be part of that tourism strategy, growing the Tasmanian economy. Cambria Green will be paying a lot of taxes to state and federal governments.
Cambria Green investors have to build a $140 millionplus development before any profits can be realised.
Cambria Green aims to fill a major hole in the East Coast tourism market. We want to embrace the values of the East Coast and provide employment and investment in and around the region.