Visits at Australian business events spent US$14b in 2023

Australia, 28th March: Tourism Research Australia (TRA) has published some interesting business events data as part of its official statistics. For example, the result of its Domestics Visitor Survey (NVS) and International Visitor Survey (IVS) are included in the data.

In 2023, visitors travelling for business events spent A$20.9 billion (US$14.2 billion) in Australia, with A$2.6 billion (US$1.8 billion) coming from international visitors. International visitor numbers in 2023 were 742,000, which was 71% of the 2019 pre-COVID figure.