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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
Tourism Research Australia have released their latest 10 year tourism number forecasts (available here). They show total visitor nights in QLD forecast to rise at an average rate of 3.9% pa for the 10 years to 2024-25. The pace of growth is forecast to be slightly slower in the non-Brisbane …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
Yesterday saw the release of the data for May short term overseas arrivals and departures (OAD) and it confirms that the strength in in-bound tourism continues into the second quarter. Arrivals in May hit a new record high of 680,300 which is up 11.7% from a year ago, while the …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
Wednesday’s release by TRA of the International Visitor Survey for the first quarter (see commentary here) left no one in any doubt that tourism in Australia was moving ahead strongly. Today we see the first ABS data for arrivals and departures relating to the second quarter with April’s numbers; and …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
Data this morning from the ABS shows short term arrivals in March hit a new record monthly high of 666,000 (seasonally adjusted). This translates to 8.1% higher than at the same time last year. The total arrivals for the past 12 months (7.6 million, and a new record high) is also …read more
Yesterday I attended the Cairns Chamber of Commerce lunch to listen to Ian Maltman, CFO of Cairns Airport, talking about future plans. As the Cairns Post reported today, there was plenty of optimism about the potential of a number of new routes, both international and domestic, coming online in the …read more
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