Adelaide Tourism Statistics

Updated: 15 June 2021

How many tourists visit Adelaide each year?

Over 2.9 million travelled to Adelaide in the year ending June 2020.
  • This total was made up of 2.6 million domestic visitors and 420,000 international visitors.
  • Visitors to Adelaide were down 19% when compared to the 3.6 million visitors in 2019.

How much do tourists spend in Adelaide?

Visitors spent over $2.8 billion during trips to Adelaide in the year ending June 2020.
  • Domestic visitors contributed $2.1 billion while international visitors spent $795 million.
  • Spending was down 20% when compared to the over $3.5 billion spent by visitors in 2019.

How many people visited Adelaide in 2021?

For the first quarter of 2021 (January-March), Adelaide received over 568,000 domestic overnight visitors from both interstate and intrastate sources.
  • Visitors were down 24.7% when compared with the over 755,000 visitors of the first quarter of 2020.

How much did visitors spend in Adelaide in 2021?

Overnight visitors spent over $503 million during visits to Adelaide for the first quarter of 2021 (January-March).
  • Spending was down 28.2% when compared with the over $701 million spent during the first quarter of 2020.

How many tourists visited Adelaide in 2019?

3.6 million tourists and other visitors arrived in Adelaide between July 2018 and June 2019.1

  • This total includes 3,200,000 domestic overnight visitors and 419,000 international visitors.

How popular is Adelaide as a tourist destination?

  • Adelaide is the 6th most popular destination for international tourists in Australia.
Data source: TRA. Image credit: Camper Champ, Adelaide

How much money did Adelaide make from tourism in 2019?

  • Tourists spent a total of $3.5 billion in Adelaide in 2019.
Data source: TRA. Image credit: Camper Champ, Adelaide

How much do international tourists spend per night in Adelaide?

  • International tourists spent an average of $122 per night in Adelaide.
Data source: ABS. Image credit: Camper Champ

How long do international tourists stay in Adelaide?

  • International tourists stayed an average of 18 nights on trips to Adelaide.
Data source: ABS. Image credit: Camper Champ

How many tourists visit South Australia each year?

Over 6.8 million travellers visited South Australia in the year ending June 2020

Adelaide Camping & Campervan Statistics

  • The number of camping trips throughout South Australia has grown by 19.5% over the 10-year period from 2008 to 2018.2
  • In 2018 over 690k overnight camping trips were made in South Australia.
  • Camping trips – including caravan, campervan, commercial and non-commercial camping – made up 20.2% of visitor nights for domestic travellers to South Australia in 2019 (year ending September)

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References

  1. TRA: International Visitor Survey, 2019, National Visitor Survey 2019↩
  2. TRA: International Visitor Survey, Trends 2019, National Visitor Survey, Trends 2019↩