The Short Term Arrivals and Departures data for Feb released this morning seems to reflect the impact of the Chinese New Year falling in early Feb. Clearly many Chinese arrivals were in the country before the actual date and showed up in the strong Jan numbers. February sees a reversal …read more
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 been away enjoying some snow in Japan so have missed the past two week’s of data since the New Year. This post is an abridged version to simply update some charts and make a few comments… Building Approvals. The November nationwide approvals numbers (seasonally adjusted) saw a big dip …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
The ABS released their Short Term Arrivals & Departures data for Oct today and it shows, once again, that arrivals from China are continuing to push ahead strongly. Although total arrivals were slightly lower than last month, and up 6.7% from a year ago, the annual number of arrivals (at just a shade …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 continued weakness of the A$ is starting to have some very significant impact on travel data into Australia. Today’s release of Sept Short Trem Arrivals and Departures data highlights what is happening. Arrivals into Australia hit a new record monthly high of 637,100 (seasonally adjusted) in Sept. which is …read more
Today saw the release by the ABS of the short term Arrivals and Departures data for August. With the A$ having fallen to its lowest levels since early 2009 against both the US$ and our Trade Weighted Index it’s not surprising to see the number of international arrivals continuing to …read more