International tourism results

Year ending December 2025

The International Visitor Survey (IVS) results provide statistics on how international visitors travel within Australia. You can find national, state and territory results for the:

• number of trips taken
• nights spent on a trip
• amount spent in Australia
• total amount spent on a trip.

You can also:

• read about the factors influencing international travel to Australia
• read about the return of international visitors to Australia.

Notes on the data

• The IVS estimates now include the Philippines and Vietnam as separate markets (previously grouped in Other Asia). Please see the IVS survey methodology page for more detail.
• Unless we say otherwise, we compared the summary results for:
  • the December quarter 2025 to the December quarter 2024
  • the year ending December 2025 to the year ending December 2024.
• Spend is reported as spend in Australia. Spend in Australia is different to total spend. Total spend includes:
  • purchases made overseas such as international connections and stopovers, including airfares
  • other pre-travel or post-travel spend in the source market or elsewhere outside Australia on things like luggage, visas, duty-free retail and ground transport. 

International trips and spend key results

International visitation to Australia reached 8.3 million trips to Australia in the year ending December 2025.

The top reasons for travel to Australia in the year ending December 2025 were:

• Holiday travel with 3.6 million trips.
  • 11% up on December 2024 levels.
  • Spend in Australia was $12.9 billion, 18% up on December 2024 levels.
• Visiting friends and relatives with 2.8 million trips.
  • 7% up on December 2024 levels.
  • Spend in Australia was $5.4 billion, 9% up on December 2024 levels.
• Business travel with 758,000 trips.
  • 3% down on December 2024 levels.
  • Spend in Australia was $1.9 billion, 5% down on December 2024 levels.
• Education with 540,000 trips.
  • 11% up on December 2024 levels.
  • Spend in Australia was $14.5 billion, 25% up on December 2024 levels.

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Pre-COVID19 Comparison

International tourism to Australia has recovered following the COVID-19 pandemic. In the year ending December 2025:

• spend in Australia was 25% up on December 2019 levels.
• number of trips were 5% down on December 2019 levels.
• nights spent in Australia were 14% up on December 2019 levels.
• total trip spend was 23% up on December 2019 levels.

Total spend

Total spend in the year ending December 2025 was $55.7 billion. This was 14% up on December 2024 levels. Total spend includes:

• purchases made overseas such as international connections and stopovers, including airfares
• other pre-travel or post-travel spend in the source market or elsewhere outside Australia on things like luggage, visas, duty-free retail and ground transport.

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Data tables

More information

• Explore data from our international and national visitor surveys using TRA online. Find out more on our Services page.
• Read the IVS survey methodology page.
• Find older data tables and other publications on our Data and research page.