Greens Bass MHA Andrea Dawkins said the money would be spent on reinstating park rangers, field officers and the state’s Threatened Species Unit as well as public infrastructure.

She said parks and protected wilderness areas were the main reasons people wanted to visit Tasmania.

”The Liberals have done nothing other than wanting to log them, mine them, develop them – all for political gain,” Ms Dawkins said.

An additional $3 million a year will go into staff resourcing and about $5 million a year into additional recurrent spending on parks.

The party also reiterated calls that, if it held the balance of power after the election, it would move to scrap the government’s expressions-of-interest process regarding private development within the national parks and World Heritage Areas.

It will also move to ban cruise ships from entering these protected areas.

Meanwhile, Tasmanian Conservation Trust director Peter McClone said tourism jobs were falling in Tasmania despite a rise in industry turnover.

Referring to Tourism Research Australia data, he said jobs had dropped by 400 between 2013-14 and 2015-16.

Mr McClone called on the parties this election campaign to acknowledge increased visitation didn’t mean more jobs and that a new jobs strategy needed to be developed without creating negative environmental outcomes.

Tourism Industry Council Tasmania chief executive Luke Martin said Mr McClone had mispresented the figures.

He said industry ratio calculations changed in 2014 and the readjusted figures Tourism Research Australia actually showed growth: 15,200 in 2013-14 to 17,200 in 2015-16.

Bass Liberal MHA Sarah Courtney said:

“First the Greens came after forestry, then they went after salmon, and not it’s clear that tourism is next in their sights.”