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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
The Cairns Post runs a story this morning highlighting the fact that the number of travellers through the airport breached the 4.5 million mark in the financial year ending June 2014; and so they did. The full statistics are available from Cairns Airport here. Unfortunately for the ever-vigilant Post the …read more
Our friend Gene Tunny (Queensland Economy Watch) gave a speech to the University of the Third Age, Redlands yesterday which is well worth a read. It’s an interesting precis of Australian economic history and a review of what might be in our futures. Of particular interest for our region is …read more
The short-term arrivals and departures data from the ABS this morning showed arrivals down sharply in June from May. At 565,000 they were just 0.4% higher than in June 2013. However, over the past 12 months total arrivals are up 7.7% on the same period a year ago and stand …read more
For anyone involved in the tourism industry in Australia, and particularly in TNQ, the new edition of the Chinese International Travel Monitor from hotels.com should be required reading (it’s available for download here). There are heaps of fascinating insights into this vitally important market from both the travellers and hoteliers …read more
Tourism Research Australia’s National Visitor Survey for the quarter to March 2014 was released today (and is available for download here). It shows domestic travellers for the year to March up 4.0% across the country with a 2.2% increase in those travelling on holiday (as opposed to business or visiting …read more
Short term arrivals and departures data for May from the ABS this morning shows arrivals hitting another record high. A total of 583,600 people came into the country in May (13.7% higher than a year ago) for a total of almost 6.7 Million over the past year (8.7% higher than …read more
Today’s release from Tourism Research Australia of the International Visitors Survey for the quarter to March 2014 (available here) shows QLD lagging the nation as a whole.International arrivals were up 6.3% (to 6.012 million, and the first time over 6 million) for the year to March 2014 across the country …read more
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