NSW statistics

Travel to NSW

The NSW visitor economy is leading Australia's recovery from the pandemic, with new data showing NSW recorded the largest absolute increase nationally for international visitors, nights and expenditure in the year ending March 2024.

According to Tourism Research Australia, international visitors took 7.2 million trips to Australia during the period, with the lion's share - over 3.7 million - coming to NSW (up 60.7 per cent on the year ending March 2023). They stayed 95.2 million nights in NSW (up 58.4 per cent) and spent $11.8 billion (up 64.3 per cent) in the state.

NSW received a total of 40.9 million domestic and international overnight visitors (up 6.8 per cent on the year ending March 2023), who stayed 213.0 million nights (up 22.0 per cent) and spent $42.7 billion (up 15.4 per cent).

The data source is National Visitor Survey (NVS) and International Visitor Survey (IVS) conducted by Tourism Research Australia (TRA), a branch within Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade). TRA is Australia's leading provider of quality tourism intelligence across both international and domestic markets.