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We’ve been away from the office for almost three weeks over Christmas and the New Year, so now is the time to start to catch up on the regional data released since we left; and we’re staring with the National Visitor Survey for the September quarter released by Tourism Research …read more
The weak growth in international visitors to TNQ (see below) has seen declines in most of our major markets. Japan fell by 1.1% in the year to Sept 2017, China was down 0.5%, the US dropped a thumping 4.8% (after some impressive improvements in previous quarters) while the UK managed …read more
The Sept 2017 International Visitor Survey from Tourism Research Australia (available for download here) makes for unhappy reading for the Queensland and the TNQ region in particular. While total international visitors to Australia rose by 7.3% for the year to Sept 2017, the increase was just 3.0% for Queensland and …read more
The June quarter National Visitor Survey from Tourism Research Australia was released this morning (see here for full details), and it confirms the deteriorating story for the region we’ve been discussing for some time (see commentary from last quarter). Across the nation domestic overnight visits rose 5.2% y/y and were …read more
Today’s release of the Short Term Arrivals and Departures data for July shows tourism into Australia is still booming. Short Term Arrivals rose 8.8% y/y for the 12 months to July while Short Term Residents Departing were up 5.8%. The Chinese markets continue to lead the way with arrivals up …read more
Further data from TRA for the TNQ region highlights the concern we flagged earlier today. Over the past year the once-booming Chinese sector of the market has seen a decline in the region of 1.2%. Chinese visitors to TNQ fell from 216,726 in the year to June 2016 to 214,082 …read more
Today sees the release of the June quarter International Visitor Survey from Tourism Research Australia (full report available here); and although visitor numbers are up strongly it’s not a happy story for Queensland. Visitor numbers to Australia show a 8.7% y/y increase to almost 7.9 million (another new record high). …read more
Pete spoke to Kier Shorey on ABC Far North this morning about yesterday’s release of the experimental Environmental-Economic accounts for the Great Barrier Reef (see our commentary here). You can listen below.
The ABS have today produced the first edition of a new data set, the Experimental Environmental-Economic Accounts for the Great Barrier Reef (full details here). There’s a lot of information here, sourced from a wide variety of sources, but some highlights include: Marine Condition indicators which show Coral condition at 44 …read more
Pete spoke to John MacKenzie on radio 4CA this morning on “secondary” jobs (you can read commentary here, and here) as well as domestic tourism in the Tropical North. Listen below…
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