March figures released by Tourism Research Australia see education as the top contributor to tourism spending with $6.8b.
The year ending March 23 figures are:
- Visiting friends and relatives with 2.0 million trips.
- 80% of March 2020 levels.
- Spend in Australia was $3.8 billion, 97% of March 2020 levels.
- Holiday travel with 1.5 million trips.
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- 41% of March 2020 levels.
- Spend in Australia was $4.5 billion, 48% of March 2020 levels.
- Business travel with 531,000 trips.
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- 57% of March 2020 levels.
- Spend in Australia was $1.5 billion, 78% of March 2020 levels.
- Education with 301,000 trips.
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- This was 56% of March 2020 levels.
- Spend in Australia was $6.8 billion, 61% of March 2020 levels.
Total spend in Q1 was $28.8b and was 69% of 2020 levels, education was 23.6 per cent of the total spend.
A few points for clarification:
As defined by TRA – Total spend includes purchases made overseas such as international connections and stopovers, including airfares, and other pre-travel or post-travel spend in the source market or elsewhere outside Australia on things like luggage, visas, duty-free retail and ground transport.
Education spending is education only, not including any related travel by family or friends for an event such as graduation or to see their loved ones.
For more information, and to download data tables, see here.
