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Tourism update | 23 June 2023
23 Jun 2023
The Australian Bureau of Statistics recently released the visitor arrival and departure numbers for April 2023. Short-term visitor arrivals (tourists) were 544,920, which accounts for an annual increase of 309,450 trips. The report is available HERE.
The highest number of visitor arrivals for short-term trips were in NSW (200,230), whilst the Northern Territory recorded the fewest (3,930). New Zealand was the largest source country, accounting for 18.9 per cent of visitors.
For the year, there were 3.7 million visitor arrivals, in excess of 15 times more than the previous year. The median duration of stay in Australia was 18 days, down from 30 days in 2021, demonstrating the return to short term leisure and those visiting friends and relatives.
