Sydney Tourism Statistics

Over 14.87 million visitors traveled to Sydney in 2024 (year ending December).

• Domestic visitors accounted for about 11.34 million trips, while international visitors made up approximately 3.53 million trips.
• International visitation to Sydney, although much improved from pandemic lows, remained approximately 14% below the 2019 peak of 4.11 million.

Over 8.8 million domestic overnight visitors travelled to Sydney in 2022 (year ending September 2022).

• Domestic visitors were up 55% when compared with the over 5.6 million from 2021 (year ending September 2021)
• Data for international visitors is not yet available for this period.

How much did visitors spend in Sydney in 2022?

Domestic visitors spent over $7.6 billion during trips to Sydney in 2022 (year ending September 2022).

• Spending was up 84.8% when compared with the over $4.1 billion spent during 2021 (year ending September 2021).
• Data for international visitors is not yet available for this period.

Over 9.3 million visitors travelled to Sydney in the year ending September 2020¹.

• This total was made up of 1.9 million international visitors and 7.4 million domestic visitors.
• Visitors were down 43% when compared to the 16.4 million visitors for the corresponding 12 month period ending in September 2019.

How much did tourists spend in Sydney in 2020?

Visitors spent over $9.5 billion during trips to Sydney in the year ending September 2020.

• International visitors spent over $4.6 billion while domestic visitors contributed $4.9 billion.
• Spending was down 51.7% when compared to the $19.7 billion spent in the corresponding 12 months ending in September 2019.

• At $19.5 billion, Sydney ranked first in Australia for highest overall visitor spend in 2018/19.
• International visitors spent the most at $10.2 billion.
• Domestic visitors spent a total of $9.3 billion.

How much did international tourists spend per night?

• International visitors spent an average of $123 per night on trips to Sydney.
• This equates to an average trip spend of $2499 per visitor.

How long do international tourists stay in Sydney?

• International tourists stay in Sydney for an average of 20 nights, the 3rd highest in all of Australia.
• The longest average stay was Melbourne, with 22 nights.

How many people visit the Sydney Opera House each year?

• More than 10.9 million people visit the Sydney Opera House each year³.

How many people visit Bondi Beach every year?

• 2.9 million people visited Bondi Beach for the year ending March 2018¹.
• 1.8 million were international visitors.
• 1.1 million were domestic visitors.

How many people visit the Sydney Harbour Bridge each year?

• More than 10.9 million people visit each year the Sydney Opera House, nearby the Sydney Harbour Bridge. While specific numbers for the Sydney Harbour Bridge aren’t available, the bridge is consistently cited by tourists as one of the top reasons to visit Sydney.
• More than 150,000 vehicles cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge each day⁴.

• The number of camping trips throughout New South Wales has grown by 14.5% over the 10-year period from 2008 to 2018⁵.
• In 2018 over 2.2 million overnight camping trips were made in New South Wales.
• Camping trips – including caravan, campervan, commercial and non-commercial camping – made up 15% of visitor nights for domestic travellers to New South Wales in 2019 (year ending September).