Tasmania Tourism Statistics

Page last updated: 15 June 2021

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How many tourists visit Tasmania each year?

Over 2.6 million travellers visited Tasmania in the year ending June 2020.¹

This total was made up of 200,000 international visitors and over 2.4 million domestic visitors
Visitors to Tasmania decreased by 25% when compared with the 3.5 million visitors of 2018/19

For the first quarter of 2021 (January-March), Tasmania received over 849,000 domestic overnight visitors.

Visitors were up 0.3% when compared with the over 755,000 visitors of the first quarter of 2020.

Overnight visitors spent over $822 million during visits to Tasmania for the first quarter of 2021 (January-March).

Spending was down 13.1% when compared with the over $946 million spent during the first quarter of 2020.

International visitors spent an estimated $395 million during trips to Tasmania in the year ending June 2020

International spending was down 25.1% when compared to the $528 million of 2018/19

Domestic visitors spent an estimated $2.2 billion during trips to Tasmania in the year ending June 2020

Combined, visitors spent a total of $2.6 billion during trips to Tasmania in the year ending June 2020

Total spending was down 21.2% when compared with the $3.3 billion of the previous year

Over 3.5 million tourists and other visitors arrived in Tasmania between July 2018 and June 2019.¹

This total includes 300,000 international visitors and 3,200,000 domestic overnight visitors.
Tourists spent over $3.2 billion in Tasmania in 2019.

Over 1.9 million tourists and other visitors arrived in Hobart and Southern Tasmania between July 2018 and June 2019.
This total includes 1,700,000 domestic visitors and 263,000 international visitors.

The number of camping trips throughout Tasmania has grown by 11.2% over the 10-year period from 2008 to 2018.²
In 2018 over 175k overnight camping trips were made in Tasmania.
Camping trips – including caravan, campervan, commercial and non-commercial camping – made up 12.6% of visitor nights for domestic travellers to Tasmania in 2019 (year ending September)

TRA: International Visitor Survey, 2019, National Visitor Survey 2019 ↩
TRA: International Visitor Survey, Trends 2019, National Visitor Survey, Trends 2019 ↩