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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
ABS Short Term Arrivals and Departures for Sept show arrivals increased by 5.7% from a year ago (the total for the past 12 months are up 8.1% from the same period a year ago). Chinese arrivals have continued to grow strongly and are up 13.4% from a year ago (and …read more
There is a well held belief that if the Aussie $ continues to weaken that we will see direct positive flow-through into the tourism industry. It’s a belief that is founded on some sound, and apparently reasonable, assumptions based on the fact that as the A$ falls travel for non-A$ …read more
Loose Change yesterday noted the release of the “report card” from the recent DestinationQ forum (see here for the press release). As he points out the claim of the tourism industry in Queensland having “grown by $3.5 bn” since the Newman Government came to power is the same that Tourism …read more
The release by Tourism Research Australia today of the National Visitor Survey for the second quarter 2014 (available here) is yet more bad news for Queensland. Nationwide domestic overnight visits were up 5.1% from a year ago (although expenditure only increased by 3.6%..barely keeping pace with inflation), but to Queensland …read more
An interesting report from Tourism Research Australia on Chinese Resident Perceptions of Queensland was released yesterday. Loose Change has a handy precis of the main finding on his post. What we found rather interesting, and a little strange, was that the #1 “preferred holiday destination in Queensland” for Chinese resident …read more
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