As South Australia’s occasions calendar heats up, the state is marking one other report month for tourism.
Customer spend in July 2023 reached $865 million, making it the perfect July on report and the twelfth consecutive month – a full 12 months – of record-high customer expenditure in South Australia.
The Nationwide Customer Survey knowledge launched right now comes because the state’s occasions calendar heats up for summer season.
This weekend will see the XIX Australian Masters Video games 2023 – one of many nation’s largest multi-sport occasions – and WellFest Adelaide kick off, adopted by:
- Adelaide Movie Pageant: 18 – 29 October 2023
- OzAsia Pageant: 19 October – 5 November 2023
- TPS South Australia Webex Gamers Collection: 19 – 22 October 2023
- Adelaide Trend Week: 20 – 22 October 2023
- Bay to Birdwood: 22 October 2023
- World Photo voltaic Problem: 22 – 29 October 2023
- Tarnanthi: 20 October 2023 – 21 January 2024
- Harvest Rock II: 28 – 29 October 2023 and
- Nationwide Pharmacies Christmas Pageant: 4 November 2023.
July 2023 highlights launched right now:
- A complete $865 million in customer expenditure in South Australia for the month of July 2023 – making it the perfect July on report and the twelfth consecutive month of record-high customer expenditure within the state.
- Interstate in a single day customer spend of $291 million – up 12 per cent on July 2019
- Intrastate in a single day customer spend of $325 million – up 71 per cent on July 2019
- Worldwide in a single day customer spend of $116 million, up from the earlier month of June 2023 of $88 million.
The twelfth month in a row of record-high customer spend was led by a surge in intrastate journey, spurred by the July college holidays.
Minister for Tourism, Zoe Bettison stated it has been one other report month for tourism in South Australia and a full 12 months the place customer expenditure hit month-to-month all-time highs.
“With the July customer spend bolstered by college vacation journey, it is vitally promising information for the college vacation interval at present underway,” Minister Bettison stated.
“Whereas we’re listening to of an anticipated softening within the customer economic system nationally, tourism operators shall be buoyed by these outcomes and with the back-to-back calendar of main occasions forward.
“We’re doing the whole lot we are able to to proceed to drive this robust momentum, simply final week we launched a brand new home tourism advertising and marketing marketing campaign and revealed our state’s customer economic system hit a record-high $9.9 billion.
“There is no doubt the string of main occasions may also entice guests to remain and to spend, together with the Australian Masters Video games which involves city from tomorrow – its seventh time hosted in South Australia.
“We’ll see greater than 7000 members, and their family and friends, out and about in Adelaide over the subsequent week, exploring our metropolis, laneway bars and eating places – all of it including to our state’s economic system and our rising fame because the place to be.”
