Frequently Asked Questions
The primary sources of information on visitor numbers to South Australia and to South Australia’s tourism regions, published by the South Australian Tourism Commission (SATC) are:
- the National Visitor Survey (NVS) for domestic visitor figures (travel by Australian residents), and
- the International Visitor Survey (IVS) for visits by international visitors to Australia.
These surveys are managed by
Tourism Research Australia on behalf of Commonwealth and State Tourism Organisations.
The surveys are comprehensive. For instance, for overnight trips, the
NVS includes questions about:
- The Visitor e.g. gender, age, life-cycle stage, income etc;
- The Trip e.g. travel party, length of trip, number/places of stopovers, information sources, expenditure, bookings on the internet etc;
- Each Stopover Visit e.g. for each place a visitor stopped overnight they are asked about transport used, accommodation, length of stay, leisure activities, purpose of visit etc.
The
IVS asks, in the main, similar questions to the
NVS although some questions such as activities undertaken are asked for the entire trip – rather than for each stopover.