Perth Tourism Statistics | How many people visit? (2024)

Published 20 Jan 2020 · Updated 26 June 2025

How many tourists visit Perth each year?

Around 5.26 million tourists traveled to Perth in 2024 (year ending December).

Domestic visitors made up roughly 4.45 million of these trips, while about 813,000 were international visitors.
Total visitor numbers in 2024 were approximately 7% below the same period in 2019, when Perth welcomed about 5.66 million tourists.

Tourists spent approximately A$7.60 billion in Perth during the year ending December 2024.

Domestic visitors contributed about A$5.33 billion to the city’s tourism revenue, while international visitors spent roughly A$2.27 billion.
Visitor expenditure in Perth increased in 2024, reaching a total that was approximately 29% higher than the A$5.87 billion recorded in 2019.

Total Visitor Spending in Perth
Year	International	Domestic
2019	A$1.96 B	A$3.91 B
2023	A$1.95 B	A$5.42 B
2024	A$2.27 B	A$5.33 B

For the first quarter of 2021 (January-March), Perth received over 888,000 domestic overnight visitors from both interstate and intrastate sources.

Visitors were down 11.2% when compared with the over 1 million visitors of the first quarter of 2020.

Overnight visitors spent over $650 million during visits to Perth for the first quarter of 2021 (January-March).

Spending was down 33.6% when compared with the over $980 million spent during the first quarter of 2020.

Over 4.7 million visitors travelled to Perth in the year ending June 2020.¹

This total was made up of 4 million domestic visitors and over 700,000 international visitors.
Visitors were down 16% when compared with the 5.6 million visitors in 2019.

Visitors spend over $4.5 billion during trips to Perth in the year ending June 2020.

International visitors spent $1.4 billion while domestic visitors contributed over $3.1 billion.
Spending was down 19.6% when compared to the more than $5.6 billion spent in 2019.

Over 5.7 million tourists and other visitors arrived in Perth between July 2018 and June 2019, the highest number ever recorded.¹

This total includes 924,000 international visitors and 4,750,000 domestic overnight visitors.

The vast majority of visitors to Perth come from domestic overnight visitors, which have grown significantly over the last decade.
Between 2009 and 2019, the number of domestic visitors to Perth increased by 91% and the number of international visitors by 42%.
Total visitors to Perth increased by 12.2% in 2018/19.

In 2019, Perth was the 4th most popular destination for domestic visitors and the 5th most popular destination for international visitors.

Tourists spent a total of $5.6 billion in Perth between July 2018 and June 2019.
$1.8 billion came from international visitors, and $3.8 billion came from domestic overnight visitors.

International tourists spend an average of $98 per night during visits to Perth, a lower spend compared to other popular destinations in Australia.

Over 10.1 million travellers visited Western Australia in the year ending June 2020

The number of camping trips throughout Western Australia has grown by 69.4% over the 10-year period from 2008 to 2018.³
In 2018 over 900 thousand overnight camping trips were made in Western Australia.
Camping trips– including caravan, campervan, commercial and non-commercial camping – made up 13.3% of visitor nights for domestic travellers to Western Australia in 2019 (year ending September).