3401.0 - Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia, Jun 2019 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 15/08/2019   
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JUNE KEY FIGURES

Jun '19
May '19 to Jun '19
Jun '18 to Jun '19
'000
% change
% change
Short-term visitor arrivals
Trend
793.9
0.5
3.1
Seasonally adjusted
791.9
-3.0
..
Original
660.3
..
..
Short-term resident returns
Trend
951.9
0.7
2.9
Seasonally adjusted
953.7
-2.3
..
Original
842.0
..
..
.. not applicable




Visitor arrivals, Short-term
Graph: Visitor arrivals, Short-term
Resident returns, Short-term
Graph: Resident returns, Short-term


JUNE KEY POINTS

SHORT-TERM VISITOR ARRIVALS TO AUSTRALIA
  • Trend estimates: Short-term visitor arrivals during June 2019 (793,900 movements) increased by 0.5% when compared with May 2019 (789,600 movements). This followed monthly increases of 0.5% for April 2019 and 0.6% for May 2019. The current trend estimate for arrivals is 3.1% higher than in June 2018.
  • Seasonally adjusted estimates: During June 2019, short-term visitor arrivals (791,900 movements) decreased by 3.0% when compared with May 2019 (816,400 movements). This followed a monthly decrease of 0.2% for April 2019 and a monthly increase of 6.3% for May 2019.
  • Original estimates: There were 660,300 short-term visitor arrivals to Australia in June 2019.


SHORT-TERM RESIDENT RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA
  • Trend estimates: Short-term resident returns during June 2019 (951,900 movements) increased by 0.7% when compared with May 2019 (945,500 movements). This followed monthly increases of 0.5% for April 2019 and 0.7% for May 2019. When compared to June 2018, the current trend estimate for returns is 2.9% higher.
  • Seasonally adjusted estimates: During June 2019, short-term resident returns (953,700 movements) decreased by 2.3% when compared with May 2019 (976,400 movements). This followed a monthly decrease of 0.7% for April 2019 and a monthly increase of 6.0% for May 2019.
  • Original estimates: There were 842,000 short-term resident returns to Australia in June 2019.


NOTES


FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE Release Date
July 201911 September 2019
August 201915 October 2019
September 201911 November 2019
October 201912 December 2019
November 201916 January 2020
December 201918 February 2020
January 202016 March 2020
February 202015 April 2020
March 202012 May 2020
April 202015 June 2020
May 202013 July 2020
June 202014 August 2020


CHANGES IN FORTHCOMING ISSUES

A time series re-analysis has been undertaken. As a result, the time series spreadsheets from the July 2019 issue of Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia (cat. no. 3401.0) will be updated. The series IDs will change in the Time Series Spreadsheets and the list of countries will be updated. For further information, see point 1 in the Time Series Spreadsheet (I-Note) under the Downloads tab.


DATA NOTES

This release contains overseas movement data which should not be interpreted as 'persons'. See paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes for more detail.

The statistics in this release have been rounded. See paragraph 33 of the Explanatory Notes for more detail.


INQUIRIES

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