National Visitor Survey (NVS) results, year ending December 2022

Figure 1: Key domestic visitor highlights for Victoria

Some top line stats for domestic travel to and within Victoria for the year ending December 2022. Overnight spend $20.3 billion, 119% of the year ending December 2019 level. Overnight visitors 26.2 million, 88% of the year ending December 2019 level. Nights 77.3 million, 93% of the year ending December 2019 level. Daytrips 55.9 million, 83% of the year ending December 2019 level.

Figure 2: Domestic overnight visitation summary results

Table Title - Victorian Domestic Overnight Visitor Summary Table, Year ending September 2022. Column one title is Visitor Expenditure Estimates (includes airfares and long-distance transport costs). Victoria: $16.5 billion in year ending September 2019, $17.1 billion in year ending September 2022, up four per cent. Melbourne: $9.3 billion in year ending September 2019, $7.5 billion in year ending September 2022, down 20 per cent. Regional Victoria: $7.1 billion in year ending September 2019, $9.6 billion in year ending September 2022, up 35 per cent. Column two title is Overnight Visitor Estimates. Victoria: 29.4 million in year ending September 2019, 24.2 million in year ending September 2022, down 18 per cent. Melbourne: 11.3 million in year ending September 2019, 7.2 million in year ending September 2022, down 36 per cent. Regional Victoria: 18.9 million in year ending September 2019, 17.6 million in year ending September 2022, down 7 per cent. Column three title is Visitor Nights Estimates. Victoria: 82.1 million in year ending September 2019, 71.4 million in year ending September 2022, down 13 per cent. Melbourne: 30.9 million in year ending September 2019, 21.2 million in year ending September 2022, down 32 per cent. Regional Victoria: 51.2 million in year ending September 2019, 50.3 million in year ending September 2022, down two per cent.

For the year ending December 2022 (released April 2023), key points include:

  • Domestic overnight expenditure has fully recovered above pre-COVID-19 levels (+19% above the year ending December 2019) to $20.3 billion in the year ending December 2022 and noted a substantial increase compared to the same time in 2021 (+103%).
  • Domestic overnight spend in regional Victoria has well exceeded pre-pandemic levels (+39% to $10.4 billion).
  • Melbourne’s recovery gained further strength in these results and recorded a strong rebound in domestic overnight spend which exceeded the pre-pandemic year ending December 2019 (+4% to $9.9 billion).
  • Daytrip spend to/within Victoria has fully recovered and surpassed the year ending December 2019 result to reach $7.9 billion (+19%).

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Previous releases:

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Next NVS release: year ending March 2023 data in June 2023 (TBC)

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Page last updated 30 June 2021. Data considered correct at time of publishing.