Chinese tourists in Australia.
The latest official figures show that while the number of visitors from China's mainland fell, the decline in Chinese mainland visitors was partly offset by an increase in visitors to India, Japan, China's TW and Southeast Asia.
According to the Australian Financial Review, the "International visitor survey" released today (IVS) "shows that as a result of the weakness of the relationship between Australia and China, China's mainland has 1.3 million visitors and only 2.9 percentage points in the year ending March.
Overall, more than 8.5 million international tourism has been made in Australia over a year. But the figures show an alarming sign of the important market in china, china. The number of tourist arrivals declined by 2 per cent a year, business travelers reduced by 4 per cent, and the number of migrant workers was reduced by more than 6 per cent.
But on the other hand, while Australian universities have been criticized for treating Chinese mainland students as a cash cow, the number of Chinese mainland students coming to Australia continues to grow, rising 19 percent a year to 255000; their spending is as high as A $6.7 billion a year, up A $937 million a year.
To sum up, china's mainland is still the largest source of tourists in australia, but the annual growth rate is the lowest since 2010. But the data show that Australia's recent tourism campaign against South-East Asia has achieved some success.
Indian tourists soared 14.6 per cent to 342694 a year, while spending rose 12 per cent to A $1.7 billion. But the Indian tourism model is different from that of tourists from many countries, with 53 percent visiting relatives and friends in Australia, compared with only 30 percent from other countries for this purpose.
In addition, Indians spend an average of 61 nights in Australia, almost double the overall average. However, 57 per cent of Indians spend the night at the homes of friends or relatives, with the result that they spend an average of A $4933 in Australia, below the A $5195 tourist average.
During the same period, the number of Japanese tourists who had been single-headed in the 1980s increased by 8.6% to 47,547, and the number of Chinese TW visitors increased by 6.1%, with 185,275 visitors in Australia last year; and 186,752 Indonesian tourists came to Australia last year, with an annual growth rate of 5.9%.
Federal travel minister Birmingham (Simon Birmingham) said more than 1.3 million visitors from India, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia came to Australia each year, injecting more than A $5 billion into Australia's economic.
""Other markets have also seen strong growth as some markets are ripe or when we focus on high-value visitors." India continues to demonstrate why it is an important market in Australia, with a double-digit increase in its visitor and visitor spending, making it the fastest-growing market for us."
French, Canadian and Dutch tourists also increased significantly, by 9.9 percent, 7.5 percent and 5.7 percent, respectively. But British tourists fell by 4 per cent to 673000. (Enyo)