International Visitation to Victoria’s Sub Regions

Yarra Valley & The Dandenongs tops the growth figures for Victoria with a superb 41.2% improvement 2008-2009. This is in an environment where our competitive regions have delivered negative growth and Australia as a whole has delivered continued falls of 9% annually for a number of years. Growth is hard to find.

Our organisations strategy of steady, predictable, reliable and consistent, consultative relationship building on behalf of the region with inbound organizations and in-market decision makers with a focus on making connections for operators is working.

The attachment shows the inbound data up to June 2009 – which includes the bushfire period.

International Visitation to  June 2009
Fact Sheets from Tourism Victoria on the International Visitation Statistics to Victoria’s sub-regions, for year ending March 2009 are now available

International Overnight Visitor Stay to Victoria’s Sub-regions to March 2009
Fact Sheets from Tourism Victoria on the International Overnight Visitor Statistics to Victoria’s sub-regions, for year ending March 2009 are now available.  Yarra Valley and The Dandenongs have done extremely well, posting 38.1% increase over the period.