Tourism Update | 14 July 2023

14 Jul 2023

National Visitor Survey

 

The latest National Visitor Survey results for domestic visitors was released this week. April 2023 saw mixed domestic tourism results when compared to the April 2019 pre-COVID period. Overnight spend was up, buoyed by Easter and school holidays. However, the number of trips and nights away were down.

Strong spend results in April 2023 were driven by increased spending across all major expenditure items. The largest increases were on, accommodation, food and drinks and petrol.

Trips, nights and spend were all slightly down on April 2022.

Overall spend was $9.9 billion. This was up 29 per cent ($2.2 billion) on April 2019 but down 2 per cent on April 2022. Visitors spent 38.1 million nights away. This was down on both April 2019 (down 6 per cent) and April 2022 (down 4 per cent). This was made up of 10.5 million overnight trips. This was down 5 per cent on April 2019 and 2 per cent on April 2022.

There were strong spend results in most state and territories. The highest increase was in Queensland, which was up $699 million or 40 per cent. State-by-state results for trips were mixed. Overnight trips were up for Western Australia and Victoria, but down for other state and territories.

The full report from Tourism Research Australia is HERE.







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