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Tourism Research Australia

Tourism Research Australia (TRA) is a branch within Austrade. We are Australia's leading provider of quality tourism intelligence across both international and domestic markets.

Value of the Australian visitor economy

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$78bn

In 2023-24, tourism directly contributed 2.9% of Australia's GDP

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1 in 23 jobs

Directly employed 619,500 people in 2023-24

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$174bn

Short-term visitor spend in 2023-24, a 7% increase on 2022-23 visitor spend

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1 in 7 businesses

In June 2023, there were 355,600 tourism related businesses

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