The WA Sustainable Tourism Forum will provide attendees with an understanding of how sustainability principles apply to tourism across cultural, environmental, social and commercial operations. Attendees will be provided with effective tools to encourage tourism businesses and destinations to commence or progress their sustainability…

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Jobs and Skills Australia have released a consultation paper which invites submissions about what is important to you as they develop their 2024-25 annual work plan. Their work plans focus on providing high-quality advice to underpin Australia’s response to current, emerging and future workforce, skills and training needs. The work plan sets out…

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Improving data and insights is a priority of Australia’s long-term strategy for the visitor economy, THRIVE 2030. Our Tourism Research Australia (TRA) team leads this work. We are Australia’s official provider of quality tourism intelligence across international and domestic markets.

New data sources

As technology advances, new data sources or…

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The Visitor Economy Facts and Figures (VEFF) is a monthly report which brings together data relevant to the visitor economy from a range of different sources. The report provides a quick and easy reference for the major factors affecting Australia’s visitor economy.

View the VEEF via the website.

Image: Tourism Australia, Girraween National…

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This report compares the month of September 2023 with the pre-pandemic month of September 2019. International visitor spend in Australia exceeded pre-COVID levels by 11%. Trips and nights to Australia were 84% and 91% of pre-COVID levels respectively. The September 2023 results show international visitors:

• took 549,000 international trips…

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Tourism Research Australia’s (TRA’s) monthly snapshots estimate tourism activity in the related month. We also produce quarterly and annual summaries.

This report compares the month of September 2023 with the month of September 2022 unless stated otherwise.

September 2023 saw weaker domestic tourism results when compared to September 2022.…

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The COVID-19 pandemic severely affected Australia’s visitor economy workforce. Lengthy travel restrictions contributed to dramatic job losses in the visitor economy.

Workforce shortages have been a challenge for the visitor economy. This is particularly true in the period after the COVID-19 pandemic. The short-term absence of permanent and…

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TRA produces tourism forecasts for Australia. This year, we produced:

• international forecasts at the national level and for many markets and purposes of travel
• domestic forecasts at the national level and for each state and territory.

The forecasts cover the 5-year forward period, 2023 to 2028, on a calendar year basis. Forecast data are…

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The Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services has called for submissions from individuals, businesses and community groups on their views regarding priorities for the 2024–25 Budget.

The 2024–25 Budget will continue the government’s support for Australians and lay the foundations for a stronger, more inclusive and more…

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The National Tourism Satellite Account is now published. It looks at the 2022-23 financial year and compares to performance in earlier financial years.

The results include a 77% increase in tourism GDP, which rose from $35.6 billion in 2021-22 to $63 billion in 2022-23 in current price terms. Tourism GDP as a share of the national economy…

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