Visitor profiles and accommodation reports for Local Government Areas (LGA) across regional NSW are available below. The profiles are a useful resource for marketing and planning at the local destination level.
Visitor profiles
Tourism Research Australia annually produces Local Government Area Visitor Profiles, the latest being for year ended December 2019. These profiles show the number of visitors to an LGA, broken down by the three key source markets of domestic day-trips, domestic overnight visitors and international visitors. Each source market is measured in terms of the number of visitors, visitor nights and expenditure.
Information is available on the following visitor characteristics:
- Purpose of trip
- Origin of visitor
- Accommodation used
- Travel party type
View Tourism Research Australia Local Government Area Visitor Profiles
Accommodation profiles
The final Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Survey of Tourist Accommodation was for the year ended June 2016. Past reports are available on the ABS website.
From the year ended June 2017, tourist accommodation data is collected and reported by STR. More frequent and lower level geographical reporting are available for purchase from STR.
The LGA Accommodation Profiles below as at June 2016 is the data on accommodation supply, demand and revenue factors such as the number of establishments, number of rooms, occupancy rates and average room rates. The profiles were sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Survey of Tourist Accommodation. The profiles included local area data for hotels/motels/serviced apartments with 15 or more rooms. LGA Accommodation Profile reports are available only for those LGAs that provided completed information in the ABS Survey of Tourist Accommodation 2015-2016.
