Tourism Fast Facts

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

• Tourism Fast Facts - Dec 2018 [PDF 199KB]

Contribution to the Tasmanian economy

• Tourism in Tasmania directly and indirectly contributes around $3.03 billion or 10.4 per cent to Gross State Product (GSP)
• Tourism directly contributes $1.44 billion or about 4.9 per cent to Tasmania's Gross Product.
• Tourism directly and indirectly supports around 38 000 jobs in Tasmania or about 15.8 per cent of total Tasmanian employment - higher than the national average and the highest in the country.

Visitors to Tasmania

• A total of 1,301,500 million people visited Tasmania on scheduled air and sea services during the year ending September 2018, not including cruise ships.
• These visitors spent a total of 10.87 million nights in Tasmania..
• Visitors spent a total of $2.40 billion on accommodation, attractions, tours, transport and other good and services during this period.

9 January 2019