More Asia tourists traveling to Australia<\/p>\n
SYDNEY (AFP): The rapid growth in travel from the booming
\neconomies of Asia helped boost tourist arrivals in Australia to
\nanother record high of 3.36 million in 1994, according to data
\nreleased yesterday.<\/p>\n
Australian Bureau of Statistics figures showed short-term
\nvisitors up 12 percent on the 1993 record total.<\/p>\n
Japan was once again the major source country, setting new
\nrecords ahead of neighboring New Zealand and Britain, with Asian
\ntigers like Singapore and South Korea also sending record numbers
\nhere.<\/p>\n
New Zealand sent fewer tourists this year but still retained
\nits second place with 14 percent of the total.<\/p>\n
Tourism Minister Michael Lee said the growth figures showed
\ntourism policies and marketing initiatives were on track and
\nsupported the Tourism Forecasting Council's prediction of 6.3
\nmillion visitors in Australia by 2000.<\/p>\n
\"We have not only built on our success in the traditional
\nmarkets of the U.K., the U.S., and importantly Japan but the
\noutstanding results for 1994 demonstrate the benefits of
\ntargeting the booming economies of our Asian neighbors,\" Lee said
\nin a statement.<\/p>\n
Japanese visitors, who made up 21 percent of arrivals, were up
\nseven per cent to 720,900 and the market is expected to continue
\ngrowing, although it may be slowed in the short term because of
\nthe impact of the Kobe earthquake, the Bureau of Tourism Research
\nwarned.<\/p>\n
Visitors from South Korea rose 78 percent to 110,700, those
\nfrom Indonesia rose 48 percent 105,600, from Taiwan 31 percent to
\n142,500, from Singapore 21 percent to 187,500 and from Hong Kong
\n19 percent to 109,400).<\/p>\n
British visitors made up 10 percent of the total, rising by
\neight percent, while those from the United States rose three
\npercent.<\/p>\n
The bulk of short-term visitors -- 63 percent -- came here for
\na holiday while 18 percent visited friends or relatives and 10
\npercent traveled for business reasons.<\/p>\n
The number of people immigrating to Australia also rose last
\nyear, by 23 percent from 65,680 in 1993 to 80,950.<\/p>",
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