Aussie October tourism arrivals up
The Australian Bureau of Statistic’s (ABS) latest figures show a 2.1% in short-term arrivals in October, with 473,500 visitors choosing to spend their holidays or business trips Down Under and the number of short-term overseas visitors to Australia is up for the second month running, the second month in a row that visitor numbers have increased, following a 0.3% per cent slump in August.
Malaysia is the leading growth market in October with a 48.6% increase, Taiwan coming in second with a 19.5% increase and the Middle East following closely behind with a rise of 18.6%, despite ABS figures showing a general decline in visitors from the Asian market during the past year.
Tourism Australia Chairman Tim Fischer said, “We’ve also had upswings from China and India, as well as Malaysia and Taiwan, and that’s definitely been partly the result of a marketing campaign in those countries,” “It’s the diversity and absolute quality of the product that draws these people here … people feel safe.”
The biggest drop in visitors travelling to Australia in October was from Canada and the US, which fell by 5.4 per cent.
Tourism Australia Chairman Mr Fischer said that this monthly slump was not indicative of a downhill trend, and forward bookings were “very strong”.
He added, today’s announcement that Jetstar will begin operating low-cost services between Cairns in northern Queensland and Japan next year would help boost visitor numbers from Asia, saying “I’m very confident that this will be a key factor in increasing visitor numbers from Japan”.
Report by The Mole
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