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 Trend May 2022 (PDF 254 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

International visitor statistics are sourced from TRA’s IVS. Recent changes to Overseas arrivals data has led TRA to revise IVS estimates in the December 2018 data release. The revisions focus on purpose-of-visit estimates, with minimal change to visitor, nights and spend estimates.

Care should be taken when comparing current IVS data with previously published data.

Latest IVS

International Travel to NSW (IVS) Snapshot December 2021 (PDF 271 kb)

International Travel to NSW Time Series December 2020 (PDF 246 kb)

Archived IVS Snapshots

Archived IVS Time Series

September 2020 | June 2020 | March 2020 | December 2019

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 September 2020	Canada Time Series December 2020
	China	China Snapshot September 2020	China Time Series December 2020
	France	France Snapshot September 2020	France Time Series December 2020
	Germany	Germany Snapshot September 2020	Germany Time Series December 2020
	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Snapshot September 2020	Hong Kong Time Series December 2020
	India	India Snapshot September 2020	India Time Series December 2020
	Indonesia	Indonesia Snapshot September 2020	Indonesia Time Series December 2020
	Japan	Japan Snapshot September 2020	Japan Time Series December 2020
	Malaysia	Malaysia Snapshot September 2020	Malaysia Time Series December 2020
	New Zealand	NZ Snapshot September 2020	NZ Time Series December 2020
	Singapore	Singapore Snapshot September 2020	Singapore Time Series December 2020
	South Korea	South Korea Snapshot September 2020	South Korea Time Series December 2020
	Taiwan	Taiwan Snapshot September 2020	Taiwan Time Series December 2020
	UK	UK Snapshot September 2020	UK Time Series December 2020
	USA	USA Snapshot September 2020	USA Time Series December 2020