{"id":609408,"date":"2026-04-15T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/609408\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:47:08","slug":"visitor-numbers-to-australia-up-20-percent-newsreel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/609408\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitor numbers to Australia up 20 percent \u2013 Newsreel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of visitors to Australia jumped almost 20 percent in the year to February, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>China was the largest source country, accounting for 23.3 percent of all visitor arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Bureau of Statistics figures released this week showed that there were 943,220 short-term visitors during the year, an increase of 19.7 percent over the 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The number of trips was 1.7 percent higher than the pre-COVID level in February 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese visitors accounted for 220,170 of those trips followed by New Zealand (85,190) and the UK (83,580).<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Territory had the biggest jump in short-term visitor arrivals over the 12 months (in percentage terms) at 53.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>This was followed by Tasmania (46.5), WA (28.1), Victoria (25.9), SA 1(19.5), Queensland (16.7) and NSW (15).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of visitors to Australia jumped almost 20 percent in the year to February, 2026. China was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-609408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}