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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
The ABS Short Term Arrivals and Departures data today shows total (seasonally adjusted) departures for the 12 months to July 2014 hitting a new record which just missed breaching the 9 million barrier (actually 8,987,100). July saw a total of 763,800 departures which was up 4.3% from a year ago. Arrivals …read more
Yesterday saw the release of Tourism Research Australia’s International Visitor Survey for the second quarter of 2014. We covered some of the detail yesterday (see here). TRA have opted to cease producing some data for public release; this includes the breakdown of visitors to regions by their country of origin. …read more
The latest International Visitors Survey from Tourism Research Australia (available here) shows international tourist numbers hit a new high in the year to June 2014 at 6.147 million, a rise of 7.6% from a year ago. Arrivals from China led the charge, up 10.5% to 708,000, but the US also …read more
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