Tourism Research Australia released its Travel by Australians report on Friday, showing that Australians were spending more on domestic holidays, but the market remained stagnant.
The report, which provides a snapshot of domestic tourism for the 12 months to March 31, showed Australians took 74.5 million overnight trips, spending 44.5 billion dollars (41.7 billion U.S. dollars) - up five percent on last year's spending.
And day-trippers took 143 million trips, spending 14.4 billion dollars - up six percent from last year's spending.
The increases saw the total economic value of the industry rise by 3.2 billion dollars or five percent, to reach 64.6 billion dollars.
But the figures revealed that overnight visitors increased just two percent compared with the previous year.
The figures came after the release of the latest International Visitor Survey last week which found international visitors had grown just one percent on the previous 12 months. (1 Australian dollars equals to 0.9388 U.S. dollars)
Source: Xinhua
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