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The September quarter National Visitor Survey from Tourism Research Australia was released today. It showed domestic overnight visitors across Australia fell by 30.6% for the year and expenditure was down 34.4%. Day visits fell 24.2% with expenditure down 24.6%. This equates to a decline of 32.0% in total domestic tourism expenditure.
In Queensland overnight visits fell by 28.1% with expenditures down 31.9%. Day trip were down 20.5% with a 18.9% fall in expenditure. This gave a total domestic tourism expenditure decline of 28.9% for the year.
In Tropical North QLD we saw a 29.1% fall in visits and a decline of 35.3% in expenditure (average expenditure per night fell by 8.7%). Day trips were down 14.3% with expenditure falling 30.4%. Total domestic tourism expenditure in TNQ fell 34.5%. After some relatively good results in the June quarter (see here for details), these numbers will be a disappointment to the industry in the Far North.
Also today TRA released their initial International Visitor Survey results for the Sept quarter. This do not include data at a regional level (although we know it will be effectively zero anyway). For the year to Sept international visitor numbers to Australia were down 52% with expenditure falling 51%. QLD did a little worse with visitors down 54% although expenditure fell 50%.
Taking the international and domestic (both overnight and day trip) data together we see that tourism expenditure across Australia fell by 47.7%, while in Queensland the decline was ‘only’ 33.3%.
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