Today’s data from the ABS of Short Term Arrivals and Departures for June confirms the slowdown in the growth of Chinese tourism into the country. While arrivals into Australia grew 5.4% y/y (seasonally adjusted) the number from China was unchanged (seasonally adjusted) since last year and up just 2.3% on …read more
We’ve managed to get our hands on some supplemental data from this week’s International Visitor Survey for the year to March 2018 (see our post from earlier here) which confirms that the very poor performance for the TNQ region is due in no small part to a quite dramatic slide …read more
Today saw the release by Tourism Research Australia of the (delayed) International Visitor Survey for the year to March 2018 (available here), and while it’s good news for Australia (and to a lesser degree Queensland) the results are very disappointing for the Tropical North. International visitors to Australia were up …read more
Today saw the release of the ABS short term arrivals and departures data for May. It shows arrivals up 4.4% from a year ago while the running annual total is now 5.8% higher than a year ago. This is, however, the slowest pace of annual growth since May 2015. Chinese …read more
The release by Tourism Research Australia of the 2016-17 Regional Tourism Satellite Accounts (available here) confirms the poor performance of tourism in the TNQ region that we’ve been discussing for some time. The graphic below (from TEQ) highlights the problems.Tourism Gross Regional Product (GSP) fell in TNQ by 1.7% while …read more
This morning’s release of domestic tourism data for the March quarter from Tourism Research Australia (National Visitor Survey available here) will be very happy reading for TTNQ. It shows the Tropical North outperforming, by a country mile, the State and National figures. Overnight domestic visitors increased by 6.7% across the …read more
Today’s short term arrivals and departures data for April give us a tantalising suggestion that Queensland might just be getting its tourism mojo back. The TRA International Visitor Survey (which was due on June 6th) for the March quarter is yet to be released and that will help to confirm, …read more
The release today of the short term arrivals and departures data from the ABS for March shows international arrivals to Australia moving ahead at a healthy lick…up 9.0% from a year ago and up 6.9% for the past 12 months totalled. Residents leaving for short term breaks are also up …read more
Yesterday saw the ABS release short term arrivals and departures data for the month of Feb. Following the release we read plenty of, frankly breathless, commentary about the strength of the Chinese visitor data…most usually when people referred to the highly volatile original, non-adjusted data. When looking at data for …read more
Today’s release of the National Visitor Survey from Tourism Research Australia (available here) is something of a mixed bag for TNQ. While overnight domestic visitor numbers across Australia rose by 7.1% for the year to Dec 2017, they fell by 4.2% to Tropical North QLD. However, with an increase in …read more