Airbnbs on the Mornington Peninsula

It's beach access that's key. There's only so much land for them that is close to the beach.

The caravan & holiday parks are normally pumping and full - they're doing fine. They are there all the way along the beachside road. The rest of land surrounding them is already taken by houses... which become AirBnBs. So that residential housing/zoning prevents more holiday parks from being developed near to the beach.

Even if they were holiday parks and not AirBnbs it presents the same problem to the local community - a community dominated by tourists rather than residents.

The visitors tend to have higher income (workers from the city) so a general raising of prices happens, which then prices out the residents. As that happens service jobs go unfilled as those that would fill those are pushed out of the area.

Sure you could raise wages and prices, but as a tourist I can also just not go to your expensive cafe and either commute somewhere else, or bring groceries in from somewhere - I'm on holiday anyway and have all the time in the world. A local working resident does not. Or I can choose to pay those high prices, but when tourist season is over what happens after the local residents are all gone? Those shops have to shut for the winter? What do the staff do then?

It's a common problem with somewhere with high natural amenity, eventually it will probably become a tourist zone and not a local residential zone.

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