Regional Tourism Satellite Account 2018–19

The Regional Tourism Satellite Accounts provide annual data for Australia’s tourism regions. This data includes:

• tourism gross value added (GVA) – direct, indirect and total
• tourism gross regional product (GRP) – direct, indirect and total
• tourism employment by full time or part time
• tourism consumption by visitor type (international or domestic)
• population
• number of tourism businesses

This data allows for comparison between:

• individual regions
• the tourism industry and other industries in the economy

State and territory profiles

Explore state and territory data.

Choose a state or territory from the tabs. Select a tourism region. You can view:

• Regional summary – a time series of the data from 2007–08 to 2018–19
• Consumption by tourism product
• Gross value added – the economic value of goods and services produced
• Employment by industry
• State summary – direct, indirect and total results

Industries in tourism are classified in 2 key categories: 

• Tourism characteristic industry — at least 25% of its output must be consumed by visitors
• Tourism connected industry — must have a tourism-related product that’s directly identifiable and significant for visitor consumption

Explore summary data

You can explore summary data by:

• choosing a state and a tourism region using the drop down menus
• viewing the data for 2018–19 and the change from 2017–18 in the table
• hovering over the chart elements to show total result

Explanatory notes

These explain how we produce the satellite account data and how to interpret it.

Contact us

Email tourism.research@tra.gov.au