Tourism Fast Facts

The following is a quick guide to visitation to Tasmania and tourism's contribution to the Tasmanian economy.

Contribution to the Tasmanian economy

• Tourism in Tasmania directly and indirectly contributes around $2.55 billion or 9.9 per cent to Gross State Product (GSP) - the highest in Australia.
• Tourism directly contributes $1.17 billion or about 4.6 per cent to Tasmania's Gross Product.
• Tourism directly and indirectly supports around 36 700 jobs in Tasmania or about 15.3 per cent of total Tasmanian employment - higher than the national average and the highest in the country.

Visitors to Tasmania

• A total of 1.26 million (1,262,100) people visited Tasmania on scheduled air and sea services during the year ending March 2017, not including cruise ships.
• These visitors spent a total of 10.88 million nights in Tasmania, at an average length of stay per visitor of 8.6 nights.
• Visitors spent a total of $2.23 billion on accommodation, attractions, tours, transport and other good and services during this period.

More information

For more data on Tasmania's tourism industry see our Tourism Fast Facts - September 2017 [PDF 183KB]

Sep 2017