NSW is Australia’s leading visitor economy by combined domestic and international visitation and visitor expenditure. It has the largest number of visitor economy-related businesses and supports the most sector-wide jobs.
Destination NSW monitors the NSW visitor economy through visitor numbers, nights and expenditure, visitor dispersal, aviation and accommodation performance, tourism’s economic contribution, tourism businesses and tourism employment.
About the data
Destination NSW draws primarily on Tourism Research Australia’s (TRA) Domestic Tourism Statistics (DoTS) and International Visitor Survey (IVS) to monitor domestic and international visitation.
DoTS replaced the National Visitor Survey (NVS) in January 2025. Changes in methodology mean DoTS results are not directly comparable with previously published NVS results. Topline historical domestic figures have been backcast from January 2019 to account for these differences, and comparisons with backcast data should be interpreted with caution.
TRA may revise historical estimates with each quarterly release, so figures may differ from previously published reports.
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