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New South Wales leading Australia’s inbound tourism recovery
New South Wales is helping to drive Australia’s inbound tourism recovery.
It welcomed the largest share of international visitors and highest expenditure in the country based on data in the year ending March 2024.
Visitors are spending more nights in the state than the pre-Covid-19 era.
The latest International Visitor Survey by Tourism Research Australia (TRA) shows NSW was Australia’s top destination for international visitors, visitor nights and expenditure.
There were 3.7 million international visitors to NSW during the period, who stayed 95.2 million nights and spent a total of $11.8 billion.
Sydney was the number one capital city for visitors, visitor nights and expenditure.
It received 3.4 million international visitors who stayed 79.9 million nights and spent an estimated $10.7 billion.
There were 694,400 international visitors to regional NSW, spending an estimated $1.1 billion.
NSW was also number one in Australia for domestic visitation, visitor nights and expenditure with over 100 million Australian tourists visiting.
NSW and Sydney both achieved their highest domestic expenditure on record in the year ending March 2024.
Destination NSW acting CEO Ian Maltman:”These results confirm the NSW visitor economy is celebrating a strong and fast recovery.”
International visitor expenditure in NSW was 5% higher than in 2019.
The largest percentage of arrivals came from the US, New Zealand and China and average expenditure per night rose from $115 in 2019 to $124 per.
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