International Markets

4 April 2014

Overseas Arrivals and Departures (OAD)

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) publishes monthly Overseas Arrivals and Departures information of short-term (under 12 months duration) international visitors to Australia, regardless of age. Overseas arrival data relate to the State of intended stay in Australia while overseas Departure data relate to the State where visitors spent the most time in Australia.

Notes on the OAD data

The ABS rebuilt its OAD data system to improve data quality. To preserve the time series, the ABS revised OAD data back from July 2004 onwards. This change impacted the OAD and the International Visitor Survey time series as international visitor estimates are benchmarked on the OAD data. January 2014 OAD results are the first to be based on the revised OAD methodology.

In February 2018, the ABS identified data quality issues affecting visitor arrivals data extending as far back as July 2017. The ABS has now revised the OAD time series. OAD reports from year ended March 2018 include revised arrivals and departure data from July 2017 onwards.

Latest OAD

OAD Snapshot August 2018 (PDF 427 kb)

Archived OAD

International Visitor Survey (IVS)

Tourism Research Australia conducts quarterly International Visitor Surveys of departing short-term (under 12 months duration) international visitors aged 15 years and over.

The IVS Snapshot provides the total international visitation to New South Wales. It covers visitor numbers, nights and expenditure as well as country of origin, purpose of visit, demographics, top activities, transport and accommodation statistics.

Notes on the International Visitor Survey (IVS) data

Tourism Research Australia recently advised that there are issues with the passenger arrival cards used in the modelling of IVS data. Hence, IVS results from the year ended March 2018 are preliminary and do not include any data relating to purpose of visit. There are no issues with the survey collection.

Latest IVS

International Travel to NSW (IVS) Snapshot June 2018 (PDF 402 kb)

International Travel to NSW Time Series June 2018 (PDF 323 kb)

Archived IVS

December 2017 | September 2017 | June 2017

International market profiles

The international market profiles provide snapshot and time series visitation information from each country market to New South Wales. It also reports on each country market’s purpose of travel, demographics, travel party, places visited, top activities, accommodation and transport used.

Country		Snapshot (PDF files)	Time Series (PDF files)
	Canada	Canada Snapshot June 2018	Canada Time Series June 2018
	China	China Snapshot June 2018	China Time Series June 2018
	France	France Snapshot June 2018	France Time Series June 2018
	Germany	Germany Snapshot June 2018	Germany Time Series June 2018
	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Snapshot June 2018	Hong Kong Time Series June 2018
	India	India Snapshot June 2018	India Time Series June 2018
	Indonesia	Indonesia Snapshot June 2018	Indonesia Time Series June 2018
	Japan	Japan Snapshot June 2018	Japan Time Series June 2018
	Malaysia	Malaysia Snapshot June 2018	Malaysia Time Series June 2018
	New Zealand	NZ Snapshot June 2018	NZ Time Series June 2018
	Singapore	Singapore Snapshot June 2018	Singapore Time Series June 2018
	South Korea	South Korea Snapshot June 2018	South Korea Time Series June 2018
	Taiwan	Taiwan Snapshot June 2018	Taiwan Time Series June 2018
	UK	UK Snapshot June 2018	UK Time Series June 2018
	USA	USA Snapshot June 2018	USA Time Series June 2018