Understanding of the characteristics and dynamics of the population permanently resident in
Tasman municipality has to recognise that the area receives numerically large influxes of both
recreational and tourist groups. Census data suggest that the economy of the peninsula is
undergoing a major shift from one reliant on traditional primary industries to one focused on
tourism. At the same time, the amenities of the natural landscape have prompted a substantial
in-migration of non-conventional lifestylers
