State Tourism Satellite Account 2020–21

The State Tourism Satellite Account (STSA) 2020–21 highlights the importance of tourism to each state and territory economy.

COVID-19 caused severe disruptions to tourism in the last quarter of 2019-20 and through all of 2020-21. This 2020-21 edition of the STSA is the first to:

capture the full 12 month impacts of COVID-19 on the visitor economy
describe where the largest impacts occurred.

Key data includes:

Consumption
Gross State Product (GSP)
Employment

Data sources

Sources for the STSA are:

the Australian Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) data
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Labour Force Survey data
ABS National Accounts data.

We extend the work of the ABS by:

examining state and territory tourism performance
estimating the indirect economic and workforce impacts of tourism.

The detailed statistical tables that accompany this report also include:

tourism Gross Value Added (GVA)
tourism output
data for different industries within the visitor economy.

Read about the terminology we use and how we apply the data in the Methodology.