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International visitors spent $1.25bn in Tropical North Queensland in the year to June 2026, up 22.3%. That is well ahead of the national increase of 15.6% but behind Queensland’s 28.3%, so the region’s share of the State’s international spend slipped 0.8 ppts to 15.4%. Visitor numbers rose 11.7% to 634,400 …read more
The ABS published its June quarter tourism labour figures last Wednesday and the headline looked pretty unexciting. There were 726,300 tourism filled jobs, down 1,200 (0.2%) on the previous quarter. Over the year they are up 28,300, or 4.1%, ahead of the 2.6% the whole economy managed, and tourism now …read more
Australians cut their spending on overseas travel by 13.9% in the June quarter, a fall of $2,547 million, and the ABS notes that imports of travel services (Aussies travelling overseas) are now at their lowest level since the recovery from the COVID-19 border closures. This is not a price effect: …read more
The ABS puts a price on almost everything. There is a CPI series for bread, for childcare, for vets services, for beer. There is no published price index for a holiday. Conus has now built one: a quarterly Australian Tourism CPI running back to September 1989. Its first finding is …read more
The raw figures for May looked soft. Total passenger movements through Cairns Airport came in at 376,582, down 2.8 per cent on May last year. But the headline does the underlying trend a disservice. Our seasonally adjusted and Trend work tells a more encouraging story: the Conus Trend for total …read more
The data from Cairns Airport for July shows a very solid pick up in both international and domestic passenger numbers. Our Trend estimate suggests that total monthly numbers are now approaching 400,000 which is only 7.5% below pre-COVID levels at this time of year. Most of this shortfall is from …read more
The latest domestic tourism expenditure snapshot data from Tourism Research Australia for June shows that the boom in domestic tourism, particularly across Regional Queensland, remains well in place. The monthly snapshot expenditure data is no more granular than “Regional QLD” and “Greater Brisbane and Gold Coast”, so we cannot say …read more
Today’s release by Tourism Research Australia of the National Visitor Survey for the year to March 2022 confirms what those living up here have known for some time (and we’ve been writing about for the past two years); domestic tourism in the Far North has been going gangbusters! Domestic tourism …read more
Data from Tourism Research Australia released recently shows just how well the Tropical North has been doing when it comes to domestic tourism; at least until the Omicron surge hit. Data for the year up to the end of the September 2021 quarter from the National Visitor Survey shows that …read more
Tourism Research Australia have just released their monthly snapshot domestic tourism data for August (see here) which clearly shows the effect of the lockdowns in NSW, Victoria and the ACT. Across the nation domestic tourism expenditure fell by 12.4% from a year earlier with a decline of almost 80% in …read more
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