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The simple answer to the question posed above, at least based on ABS data for Sept released today, would be ‘probably’. The Trend data for short-term arrivals into Australia from China shows a 1.3% increase over the year to Sept, following on from a 0.9% increase the month before. To …read more
We have finally got the much-delayed International Visitor Survey results for the June 2018 quarter from Tourism Research Australia (see here). We should note that TRA acknowledge continued issues with regard to this data and we may see revisions to this data in months to come. Nevertheless, today’s release appears …read more
The release by the ABS of August short term arrivals and departures data shows total (seasonally adjusted) international short term arrivals into Australia was up 5.6% from a year ago while the annual total is up 5.2%. The growth from the Chinese market has continued to slow sharply (although it’s …read more
Last quarter we talked about “stellar” results from the March 2018 National Visitor Survey in the Far North (see here). Well if last quarter was stellar then this quarter is on a whole new scale…”constellational”? The June 2018 National Visitor Survey from Tourism Research Australia (data available here) shows the …read more
The short term arrivals and departures data for July show total arrivals into Australia were up 3.0% y/y (s.a.) or +5.4% annual to new record highs of almost 9.1 million for the 12 months to July. While the growth of visitors from China continues (up 3.0% y/y and +9.6% annual …read more
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
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