ABS releases statistics on short-term visitors

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Created on Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:21

Written by Editorial staff

Australian migration agents may be interested to learn the number of short-term visitors to our country has reached an all-time high.

In November 2013, a total of 548,000 short-term visitors came to Australia, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

This represents an increase of 0.3 per cent on the previous month, when a lesser (but still impressive) 546,400 short-term visitors disembarked across the country.

The ABS "Overseas Arrivals and Departures" study, published on January 13, also shows the number of short-term visitors has been climbing since May 2012. The last few months of 2013 were especially busy, with September recording an increase of 0.7 per cent and October seeing 0.5 per cent more short-term visitors.

In addition to this, the study reveals that November 2013's intake of short-term visitors was a whopping 4.5 per cent higher than November 2012's.

This trend shows no signs of slowing down, which means migration agents in Australia could be helping more people arrange short-term business and other types of visas as we head toward the end of the decade.

The study also demonstrates that Australia's well on its way to achieving its Tourism 2020 goal of increasing visitor expenditure to between $15.8 billion and $16.0 billion.