Tourist Arrivals in India from Australasia
(1997 to 2001)
				Jan. to Dec.		% Change
Country of Nationality	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	1998/97	1999/98	2000/99	2001/00
Australia	50,647	57,807	73,041	53,995	52,691	14.1	26.4	23.8	-2.4
American Somoa	312	3,651	4,188	2,992	-	1,070.20	14.7	-28.6	-
New Zealand	11,409	14,720	18,324	11,551	11,700	29	24.5	-22.4	1.3
Fiji	1,379	1,917	3,000	1,541	1,422	39	56.5	-11.2	-7.7
Others	1,640	2,117	2,684	480	291	29.1	26.8	47.2	-
Total	65,387	80,212	1,01,237	70,559	66,104	22.7	26.2	12.9	-2.2
Grand Total	19,73,647	19,74,815	20,25,031	21,52,926	25,37,282	0.1	2.5	6.3	-4.2

Classification of Tourists According to Purpose of Visit
-2001
Country of Nationality	Arrivals (In Number)	Proportion to the Total (%)
		Business (In Number)	Conference	Education & Employment	Tourism & Others
South-East Asia
Indonesia	7767	5	0.5	0.2	94.3
Malaysia	57869	2.1	0.1	0.1	97.7
Philippines	7199	5.5	0.5	0.3	93.7
Singapore	42824	5.8	0.2	0.1	93.9
Thailand	18623	2.1	0.2	0.4	97.3
Total	139975	3.5	0.2	0.2	96.1
Australasia
Australia	52691	4.7	0.3	0.1	94.9
NewZeland	11700	4.1	0.4	0.1	95.4
Others	90	2.2	1.1	0	96.7
Total	64481	4.6	0.3	0.1	95
Grand Total	2537282	2.8	0.1	0.2	96.9

Indian visitors to Australia 1992 - 2002

	Visitors ‘000	% Change
1992	9.6	-
1993	9.7	10.4
1994	12.1	24.7
1995	17.1	41.3
1996	21.3	24.6
1997	26.1	22.5
1998	29.4	12.6
1999	33.6	14.3
2000	41.5	23.5
2001	48.2	16.1
2002	45	-6.6

Indian visitors to Australia have been growing regularly except for the dip in 2002. Visitors could have been less due to the outbreak of SARS in 2002, which affected the whole tourism industry.

Indian visitors by main purpose of journey 1999 - 2002


Indian visitors by travel party description 1999 - 2002

Average expenditure for Indian visitors by expenditure item 2002

	Average (AUD$)
Shopping - items for use in Australia	155
Other transport fares	153
Phone, internet, fax and/or postage	110
Organized tours	90
International airfares bought in Australia	85
Entertainment	75
Self-drive cars, rent-a-cars, campervans	31
Domestic airfares	28
Petrol and oil for self-drive cars or other vehicles	12
Horse racing and gambling	6
Other	101

Indian visitors by State/Territory visited 2001 - 2002

Outbound market to India
Outbound market is the number of passengers traveling from Australia to India. From the past data series, the percentage of returning passengers has been calculated as 99.9 % historically.

	No. of Passengers (Est.)	Returning	Non-returning	Total market size
2003	97704	97606	98	195310
2004	104250	104146	104	208396
2005	111965	111853	112	223818
2006	119578	119458	120	239036
2007	127351	127224	127	254575

Inbound market from India
Inbound market is the number of passengers traveling from India to Australia. From the past data series, the percentage of returning passengers has been calculated as 78.5 % historically.

	No. of Passengers (Est.)	Returning	Non-returning	Total market size
2002	45000	35325	9675	80325
2003	47790	37515	10275	85305
2004	50992	40029	10963	91021
2005	54765	42990	11775	97755
2006	58489	45914	12575	104403
2007	62291	48898	13393	111189

Total Air Market between India- Australia

	Total Air market
2004	299417
2005	321573
2006	343439
2007	365764