Climate change impacts are expected to greatly affect the natural environment across the South-East Queensland (SEQ) region. These impacts will subsequently affect the tourism industry, due to its heavily reliance on environmental resources and their appeal to tourist both locally and internationally.

This study will focus on the Woodford Folk Festival, a large outdoor festival event held in SEQ, aiming specifically to identifying how future climate conditions and extremes are likely to affect the environment of the unique 500 acre Woodfordia site the festival is held on, and how future extreme events will also affect the operation of the week-long festival.

This study will use climate projections to determine the likely changes to both average conditions and extreme events and will then assess their impacts to the site and festival by combining them with existing site & event management plans, risk assessment plans, a site visit and stakeholder engage sessions, in order to determine the current and future risks that are likely to have overall negative affects on the site and/or festival, due to changes in the climate.

This analysis will provide the organizers with potential adaptive strategies to the identified risks, in order to help minimize negative impacts and ensure the preservation of both the unique environment of the site and also the festival experience.