Regional NSW statistics

Overview

In the year ended December 2025, regional NSW welcomed 62.8 million domestic visitors, who spent $25.0 billion in the state. Domestic overnight visitors stayed a total of 84.5 million nights.

Regional NSW also welcomed 727,200 international visitors. They stayed 17.7 million nights and spent $1.3 billion in regional NSW.

Note: Due to the program transition from the National Visitor Survey (NVS) to Domestic Tourism Statistics (DoTS) program, total domestic tourism figures for tourism regions are available from the June quarter 2025 only, while international visitation data remains unchanged. Learn more here.

Note: NVS results in the archived reports up to YE December 2024 and DoTS results in the latest reports are not comparable to each other due to the change in methodology.

Travel to regional NSW: time series

Destination NSW tracks data from 2015 to 2025 to help businesses predict visitor demand.

Note: NVS results in the archived reports up to YE December 2024 and DoTS results in the latest reports are not comparable to each other due to the change in methodology.

Regional Tourism Satellite Account

The Regional Tourism Satellite Accounts provide information on the economic importance of tourism for each of NSW’s tourism regions. Reports include infographics and data tables for Sydney and for each tourism region in Australia.

Local Government Area (LGA) profiles

Tourism Research Australia reports visitor profiles for local government areas in regional Australia. These profiles cover local tourism businesses, international visitors, domestic overnight travellers and domestic daytrip visitors.