Editing Hobart (section)

===Tourism===
[[File:Hobart Tasmania Salamanca Place.jpg|thumb|[[Salamanca Market]] with the snow-capped [[Mount Wellington, Tasmania|kunanyi / Mount Wellington]] in the background]]
Hobart serves as a focal point and mecca for tourism in the state of Tasmania. Hobart has been a significant tourist destination for many years, however tourism has evolved to a core industry in the last decade.{{when|date=April 2023}} This process has been termed the "MONA Effect" - referring to the significant influence of the Museum of New and Old Art (MONA), the Southern Hemisphere's largest private museum, on the local tourist economy - compared to the effect of the Guggenheim on [[Bilbao]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Salmon |first1=Gregor |title=Capital gains: How MONA got Hobart humming |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-13/mona-got-hobart-humming/7081376?nw=0&r=HtmlFragment |work=ABC News |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=13 January 2016 |language=en-AU |access-date=26 June 2022 |archive-date=26 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626105622/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-13/mona-got-hobart-humming/7081376?nw=0&r=HtmlFragment |url-status=live }}</ref> Since opening in 2011, MONA had received 2.5 million visitors by 2022 and has helped establish a number of art and food venues and events, including [[MONA FOMA]], and the winter festivals of Mid-Winter Fest and [[Dark Mofo]]. 27% of visitors to Tasmania visit the museum.<ref name="MONAEffect2021">{{cite news |title=MONA, Hobart's 'subversive adult Disneyland', turns 10 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-21/mona-museum-of-old-and-new-art-hobart-tenth-birthday/13071002 |access-date=26 June 2022 |work=ABC News |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=20 January 2021 |language=en-AU |archive-date=26 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626105604/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-21/mona-museum-of-old-and-new-art-hobart-tenth-birthday/13071002 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2016, Hobart received 1.8&nbsp;million visitors, surpassing both Perth and Canberra, tying equally with Brisbane.<ref>{{cite news |title=Perth loses tourists to Brisbane, Hobart and Canberra |url=https://thewest.com.au/news/tourism/perth-loses-tourists-to-brisbane-hobart-and-canberra-ng-b88385527z |work=The West Australian |date=15 February 2017 |access-date=18 April 2017 |archive-date=19 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419100655/https://thewest.com.au/news/tourism/perth-loses-tourists-to-brisbane-hobart-and-canberra-ng-b88385527z |url-status=live }}</ref> Visitor numbers reached a low of 744,200 in 2021, primarily as a result of the [[Covid-19 Pandemic]], with expectations that numbers would return to normal by 2023.<ref>{{cite news |title=Less is more as fewer tourists stay longer and spend bigger in Tassie |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-14/tasmanian-tourism-snapshot-march-21-to-march-22/101148464 |access-date=26 June 2022 |work=ABC News |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=13 June 2022 |language=en-AU |archive-date=25 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625175205/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-14/tasmanian-tourism-snapshot-march-21-to-march-22/101148464 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Many local tourist attractions focuses on the convict history of Hobart, the city's historic architecture, art experiences, and food and alcohol experiences. Hobart is home to a significant number of nationally known restaurants, boutique alcohol producers, including Sullivans Cove Whiskey, which won world's best single malt in 2014,<ref>{{cite news |author=Lilit Marcus |title=Why Hobart is Australia's new capital of cool |url=https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hobart-australia-things-to-do/index.html |access-date=26 June 2022 |work=CNN |language=en |archive-date=26 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626105603/https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hobart-australia-things-to-do/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> boutique hotels, and art experiences. Other significant tourist attractions include Australia's second oldest botanic gardens, the [[Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens]], which holds extensive significant plant collections,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bgci.org/garden.php?id=107 |title=Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens |website=Botanic Gardens Conservation International |access-date=11 December 2011 |archive-date=1 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201135335/http://www.bgci.org/garden.php?id=107 |url-status=live }}</ref> a range of public and private museums including the [[Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery]] and [[Maritime Museum of Tasmania|Maritime Museum Tasmania]], and [[Mount Wellington (Tasmania)|kunanyi / Mount Wellington]], one of the dominant features of Hobart's skyline. At {{Convert|1,271|m|ft}}, the mountain has its own ecosystems, is rich in biodiversity and plays a large part in determining the local weather.{{Citation needed |date=July 2009}}

Hobart is used as a staging ground to visit many of the region's surrounding attractions, including the historic sights of [[Richmond, Tasmania|Richmond]] (where a model of Old Hobart Town is located) and [[Oatlands, Tasmania|Oatlands]], [[Seven Mile Beach, Tasmania|Seven Mile Beach]] and [[Turrakana / Tasman Peninsula]], the [[Huon Valley]], and the waterfalls of [[Mount Field National Park]] via the [[Derwent Valley, Tasmania|Derwent Valley]].