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Today’s release of the National Visitor Survey for the year to Dec 2015 from Tourism Research Australia confirms that domestic tourism continues to motor ahead. Total visitors rose by 6.9% while total nights were up 4.2% and total expenditure +6.4%. Queensland did much better than both Victoria and NSW with …read more
The release today by Tourism Research Australia of the International Visitor Survey for the final quarter of 2015 shows the boom in the Australia tourism industry still well in place. Total international visitors to Australia rose by 7.9% for the year to 6.9 million (a new record high), expenditure was up by …read more
The ABS released data for Short Term (less than one year) Arrivals and Departures for December. It shows that arrivals into Australia are continuing to grow very strongly hitting a new record high of 659,800 for the month (seasonally adjusted). This is 12% higher than a year ago and for …read more
I’ve just arrived back on dry land so wanted to update the Dept of Employment Small Area Labour Market (SALM) data for the Sept quarter before the Christmas break. The SALM data is based on a range of indicators including ABS Labour Force data for the SA4 areas, youth and …read more
The Tourism Research Australia National Visitor Survey for the year to Sept 2015 saw the total number of domestic visitors jump by 7% to 85.3 million. Those travelling to Queensland were stronger still, up 7.9% to 19.8 million (which saw the Sunshine State’s share of the domestic market improve slightly …read more
Today saw the release of the International Visitor Survey for the Sept quarter from Tourism Research Australia (you can access the full report here). It shows a very solid growth of total international visitors to Australia for the year to Sept, up 6.6% over the year. Expenditure rose by 15.2% …read more
The release this morning by the ABS of their regional (unadjusted) labour force data for Oct doesn’t appear to change the picture much for the Far North, despite the improvements we saw at national and state level last week (see here for our commentary). As always the raw ABS data …read more
This morning’s ABS Sept labour market data for the Queensland regions is, as always very volatile, although this month seems even more so than usual. The headline, unadjusted data shows Cairns unemployment rate jumping to 9.2% with 3,600 jobs lost in the month. To our south the original data shows …read more
Yesterday saw the release of Tourism Research Australia’s National Visitor Survey for the June quarter; and the numbers make good reading for those of us in the Far North. Total overnight domestic trips in Australia were up 5.2% to 83.2m while QLD saw growth of 5.6% to 19.1m. However, in …read more
An article in today’s Cairns Post talking about how a lower A$ was helping to boost Australian tourism (both international and domestic) spurred me to take a quick look at how tourism in the Tropical North was tracking against the goals outlined in TTNQ’s 2011-2015 Strategic Plan. The Plan targets …read more
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