Bed Utilisation Study

The Accommodation Supply and Demand during the Peak Winter Season on Mount Buller report is a summary of a bed utilisation study undertaken as an Honours Research Project. The project examined a perceived mis-match of accommodation supply and demand. That is, it investigated whether demand outstripped the number of beds available.

Using mail-out surveys and interviews carried out in 2005, the research found that during the peak period of a good snow season (August 2004) that accommodation was not at full capacity. Mis-match was found only for a small number of days and then only for some styles of accommodation.

The study concluded that there was not a major mis-match of accommodation supply and demand, that the number of cold beds do not currently restrict visitation, and that any potential supply/demand imbalance relates to demand at the cheaper end of the market (ie there is inadequate low end commercial accommodation).

Accommodation Supply and Demand during the Peak Winter Season on Mount Buller (PDF 4 mb)

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