According to a government report, the domestic and international tourists had splurged a record 121.2 billion Australian dollars that equals to 91.6 billion U,S, dollars impacting the Australian tourism sector quite favorably for the year ending March 2017, as per Tourism Research Australia (TRA).
The outcome of the latest National Visitors Survey published by the government-operated TRA portrayed that the Aussies were increasingly opting to vacation at home.
The domestic overnight trip spend was rising by nearly 6% as compared with the last year to touch a record 61.7 billion Australian dollars equal to about 46.65 billion dollars that is more than half of the total tourism expenditure for the year.
The international tourist expenditure also rose from 37.9 billion Australian dollars that is approximately 28.64 billion dollars on the year ending March 2016 to 39.8 billion Australian dollars (30.08 billion U.S. dollars) for the year ending March 2017.
The rest of the remaining 19.6 billion Australian dollars had been contributed by Australians going for dry trips implying that the overall tourist expenditure had risen by almost 5% on the year ending March 2016.
Steve Ciobo, the trade minister asserted that the Australians were continuing to strengthen the local economy and more locals were opting interstate holiday trips than ever before.
He went on to add that the domestic overnight trip has nearly doubled from the year ending March 2000. It was the time when domestic tourists had spent 33.5 billion Australian dollars on local vacations.
He feels that the country is witnessing a record number of tourists, both regional and domestic, and therefore a record tourism spending and record length of stay.
He feels that this is definitely going to positively impact the Australian economy and provide more work for the people associated with the regional tourism industry.
