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Visitors numbers to Australia steady

A total of 488,500 people paid short-term visits to Australia in May, figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics have shown.
Some 488,500 people visited Australia on a short-term basis in May, new seasonally-adjusted figures have revealed.

Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that this is a decrease of one per cent on the number that visited the country on this basis in April.

In trend terms, some 480,300 people paid a short-term visit to Australia in May, which is a 0.5 per cent decrease on the number that visited in the previous month.

This is also a 0.4 per cent decrease on the number of people who visited Australia for a short period in May 2010.

As for people who left the country for a short period of time, perhaps for a holiday or business trip, this reached 649,400 in May in seasonally-adjusted terms.

Last month, Tourism Australia visited the Americas Meeting and Events Exhibition in Baltimore, Maryland, with the aim of convincing more people in the US to visit Australia.

Posted by Steve Douglas
- visitors, travel, tourism, ABS

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