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Just a little over a week after we saw the release of the October data for short-term arrivals and departures (see here) we now have the November data as the ABS plays catch-up. Today’s data shows arrivals down slightly from Oct but nevertheless still up 6.5% from the same time …read more
As the ABS slowly gets to terms with the change in methodology for arrivals and departures cards (see here for details) today sees the release of short term arrivals and departures data for October. This shows arrivals at new highs of just under 600,000 for the month and over 6.8 …read more
Tourism Research Australia (TRA) today released their State Tourism Satellite Accounts (STSA) for the 2013-14 year. There are available for download here. The results show an industry which, although at a national level has seen growth of about 3.4%, is in decline in Queensland. We have previously posted extensively (see …read more
The Qantas Australian Tourism Awards announced in Adelaide this week saw Tasmania come of age and put the other larger states to shame. Of a total of 85 awards handed out over the course of the evening Tassie picked up 16 with 9 Golds (more than any other State or …read more
The December quarter 2014 National Visitor Survey from Tourism Research Australia (available here) shows overnight domestic visitor numbers were up 7.4% nationally to 81.436 million for the year to Dec 2014. The increase was led by Victoria where visitor numbers were up 11%. Total expenditure rose 5.7%. However, the result for …read more
The ABS has been having issues with the reporting of short term overseas arrivals and departures (OAD) data since the Sept 2014 released back in November last year. The problem has been caused “due to passenger card processing issues as announced by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP).” Earlier this …read more
After the disappointing International Visitor Survey results from last week (see here) the National Visitor Survey released today is no better (the full report is available for download here). While total overnight domestic visitors rose by 5% nationally they managed only a 2.5% increase in QLD and 1.4% in TNQ. …read more
The Tourism Research Australia International Visitor Survey (see here for the full report download) shows intl visitors to Australia have risen by 8.2% for the year to Sept 2014 with expenditure up 5.4%. Unfortunately Queensland has performed less well with visitor numbers up just 3.6% and expenditure up 2.7% (i.e. …read more
A while ago we completed a Strategic Plan for a FNQ Tourism body and in it made note of the wildly optimistic forecast embedded within the TTNQ Strategic Plan 2011-15. At the time TTNQ were forecasting expenditure to hit $3.2bn by 2015 which, at the time, represented a compound annual growth …read more
A story in the Cairns Post today discusses a “mega-familiarisation” for backpacker tour agents in Cairns. The backpacker market is obviously an important sector for the region so this is good to see happening. However, for reasons that escape us, the Post has decided to demonstrate the importance of the …read more
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