To all CMCA Chapter and SIG Presidents and Secretaries,
As you may be aware, the Local Government Association Tasmania (LGAT) has drafted a
Statewide Directions Paper
– Review of Council Recreational Vehicle Overnight Camping Services. More information
and a copy of the Paper can
be found at this website
www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/lgd/review_of_council_recreational_vehicle_overnight_camping_services
This paper will have a dramatic effect on Tasmanian Tourism, and its proposals have the
potential to spread
throughout the rest of the country once a precedent has been set in Tasmania.
The loss of free council rest areas in Tasmania will have dire consequences for RV
tourists, the Tasmanian RV
tourism industry and businesses throughout the state.
CMCA, on behalf of MoTOURing and its member clubs, has written to the Senator for
Tasmania Nick Sherry MP and
the Minister for Tourism Martin Ferguson MP on this matter. We have sent letters to
Tasmanian Chambers of
Commerce expressing our concerns and emphasising how this threat to RV travellers would
affect their businesses.
CMCA is writing to the Minister for Local Government, Bryan Green MP on the Club’s
behalf and is preparing a
comprehensive submission urging him to reject the proposal. This will point out that if
RVers are disadvantaged in
Tassie they will travel elsewhere, and that will greatly affect the state’s
economy.
What can you do? We ask you (and as many of your Chapter/SIG members as you can
muster) to write to the
Minister for Local Government, Bryan Green MP and express your dissatisfaction at the
Directions Paper.
Time is of the essence as submissions close on Monday 5 December 2011. They can be
emailed to
lgd@dpac.tas.gov.au, or posted to the Local
Government Division, GPO Box 123, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001. We need
as many Club Members as possible to participate.
Please consider including the following:
· The proposal to remove or restrict the rights of travellers to enjoy the freedoms
currently available in Tasmania will
greatly discourage mobile tourists from visiting.
· This matter has been initiated by only four privately operated caravan parks which
constitute only 3.7% of the 107
caravan parks across the state. Caravan parks already benefit greatly from a fair share
of the tourist dollar.
· Motorhomers, campervanners and caravanners travel Tasmania because it is the most RV
friendly state in the
nation and currently offers freedom of choice to all RVers.
· These mobile travellers contribute many millions of dollars to the Tasmanian economy
each year.
· Mobile tourists will chose to travel to other destinations rather than suffer the
cost of the Bass Strait crossing and
then be unreasonably restricted in where they can stop in Tasmania.
This matter needs our strongest possible voice, so join us now in this protest.
Yours faithfully,
Vincent Moran, N14036
