NSW statistics

Overview

The NSW visitor economy is leading the country with the largest share of visitors, nights and expenditure.

In the year ending December 2025, NSW welcomed 123.2 million domestic visitors, who spent $45.4 billion in the state. The 39.2 million domestic overnight visitors to NSW stayed 118.2 million nights.

NSW also welcomed 4.1 million international visitors. They stayed 105.9 million nights and spent $15.0 billion in the state.

Note: Domestic data has transitioned to the new Domestic Tourism Statistics (DoTS), while international visitation data remains unchanged.

Learn more here.

Note: NVS results in the archived reports up to YE December 2024 and DoTS results in the latest reports are not comparable to each other due to the change in methodology.

Time series: travel to NSW

Destination NSW tracks data from 2015 to 2025 to help businesses predict visitor demand.

Note: NVS results in the archived reports up to YE December 2024 and DoTS results in the latest reports are not comparable to each other due to the change in methodology.

State Tourism Satellite Account

The State Tourism Satellite Account (STSA) published by Tourism Research Australia (TRA) presents the direct and indirect economic contribution of tourism for all states and territories, highlighting the importance of tourism to each state and territory.

The outputs provide a comparison of expenditure, consumption, Gross State Product (GSP), Gross Value Added (GVA) & tourism industry-related jobs to earlier years and a time series of such historical results.

Tourism forecasts

Tourism forecasts for Australia can help in understanding:

• International forecasts at the national level and for many markets and purposes of travel.
• Domestic forecasts at the national level and for each state and territory.