Government economic policies can significantly influence the tourism sector through destination marketing funding, legislation around visas and immigration, taxes, and infrastructure development. Policies around visas, offshore visa offices, tax breaks for investors, job skills programs, airport taxes, and minimizing tourism's impacts are particularly important. Developing infrastructure like airports, roads, utilities, and telecommunications is also key to supporting the tourism industry and managing visitor flows.

1. How economic policies influence
the tourism sector

2. Government role in ‘Destination Marketing’
 Government funding to increase visitor
arrivals and per person expenditure
 Funding and grants to aid
development

3. Policies and legislation that economically
influence tourism
 Visa and immigration policies
 Visa offices off shore
 Investment eg tax breaks to overseas investors
 Fast track entry for people on skills shortage lists
 Training funding to upskill in key sector areas
 Taxes eg airport taxes
 Infrastructure development
 Planning to minimize negative impacts of tourism

4. Infrastructure required for tourism
 Airports, air navigation, roads, railheads
and ports, as well as basic infrastructure
services required by hotels, restaurants,
shops, and recreation
facilities,telecommunications and utilities
 Good infrastructure is key factor in the
industry’s ability to manage visitor flows