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The good news for the tourism industry continues. The ABS Short Term Arrivals and Departures data for July shows arrivals up 14% y/y (the best result since May ’14) and up 10.3% annually (the sum of the past 12 months) which is the best result for more than eleven years. …read more
Today’s International Visitor Survey from Tourism Research Australia for the June 2016 quarter (available here) provides some good news for Queensland, and particularly the Tropical North. International visitors to Australia were up 10.3% for the year to almost 7.25 million. expenditure lifted 14.6% with the average expenditure per visitor up by …read more
Today saw the ABS releases their original July labour force data for the regions. Our own Conus Trend analysis allows us to make some sense of this highly volatile data-set. The headline Conus Trend unemployment rates in both Cairns and Townsville SA4 areas sees some improvement over the month, although …read more
ABS data this morning show short term arrivals into Australia running at a record high 693,000 (seasonally adjusted) in June. This is 12.9% higher than a year ago and as such is the fastest rate of growth since Jan 2005. Over the course of the past 12 months Australia has welcomed …read more
The National Visitors Survey from Tourism Research Australia today (available for download here) shows a very healthy 7.6% growth in the number of domestic trips across the country for the year to March 2016. In Queensland that growth rate was even better (+8.8%) but it was the Tropical North which …read more
The release by the Dept of Employment of their Small Area Labour Market (SALM) data for the first quarter to March 2016 confirms the weaker story that we’ve been seeing in North Queensland for a while. The SALM data is based on a range of indicators including ABS Labour Force …read more
This morning saw the release by Tourism Research Australia of the International Visitor Survey for the March 2016 quarter; and it’s good news all round as the tourism sector continues to benefit from a weaker A$. Full details available for download here. At a national level international visitor numbers were …read more
Yesterday’s post on the regional labour force data (read it here) causes a good deal of interest. Pete was interviewed on ABC Far North first thing this morning and the story has been running in their news bulletins since. If you missed it you can listen to it below…
After the disappointing April labour force data for QLD released last week (see here) which saw the State unemployment rate lift to 6.5% we were bracing for some weak regional data today. The reality was worse then we had been expecting. As always when considering the ABS Regional Labour Force …read more
In all the excitement (?) of the Local Government elections last month we missed the release of the Dec quarter SALM data from the Dept of Employment. The SALM data is based on a range of indicators including ABS Labour Force data for the SA4 areas, youth and Newstart allowance …read more
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