The NorthernTerritory is reaping rewards from the Territory Labor Governments TurbochargingTourism investment with visitor numbers up by 11 per cent in the year ending June 2019.
More visitorsare travelling to the Northern Territory and theyre spending more during theirstay, latest figures from Tourism Research Australia reveal.
Close to two million domestic and international visitors spent $2.5billion in the year ending June 2019.
Thefigures include those on holiday, visiting friends and relatives, businesstravellers and others.
Businessvisitors to the Territory represented the biggest growth with an increase of 33per cent.
Thetwo top national visitor markets, with a combined expenditure of $681 million,were NSW and Queensland, while the top international markets were Japan and theUS.
Dataconfirms visitor increases from each of these four markets, most significantlyJapan, which had a 56 per cent jump in visitor numbers.
View the latest visitor data at www.tourismnt.com.au
Quotesattributable to Minister for Tourism, Sport and Culture, Lauren Moss:
Thesefigures vindicate our investment in Turbocharging Tourism and endorse our NorthernTerritory Tourism Industry Strategy 2030 which aims to increase visitor numbersand expenditure by an even greater margin.
Tourism is ahighly competitive global industry and the Northern Territory has stunningnatural attractions, wide-open spaces, unique cultural experiences andworld-class facilities that make it the perfect port-of-call for national andinternational visitors.
We willcontinue to promote our regions so we can attract more interstate andinternational holiday visitors and market the whole Territory from the RedCentre through to the tropical Top End as a destination unlike any other placeon Earth.
