The bar chart illustrates the proportion of how three different countries change the tourism to australia between 1995 and 2005, while the line graphs provides information about types of accommodation chosen by tourists during the same period.
Overall, tourists number from the UK to USA grew significantly between 1995 and 2025, While the number from Japan decreased. Meanwhile, staying at hotels was generally the most common type of accommodation chosen by tourists, although backpacking became increasingly popular over time.
In 1995, Japan recorded the highest number of tourists visiting Australia, at around 1.4 Million. In contrast, the figure for the UK and the USA were significantly lower, at approximately 0.8 Million and 0.5 Million respectively. By 2005, the number of visitors from both the UK and the USA had increased substantially, reaching about 1.5 Million each. However, the figure for Japan declined slightly to around 1.1 Million.
Regarding the types of stay, staying at hotels was consistently more popular than backpacking throughout the period. In 1995, around 170,000 tourists stayed at hotels, and this figure increased to a peak of about 250,000 in 2000 before dropping significantly to approximately 120,000 in 2005. In contrast, backpacking started at a much lower level of roughly 30,000 in 1995 but rose steadily to about 80,000 in 2000 and eventually reached around 120,000 by 2005.