The table illustrates the number of how many Australian travellers visiting the seven largest tourist attractions between 1999 and 2009.
Overall, it is clear that South China is the destination that witnessed the most significant growth in terms of proportions in both years. The opposite was true for the U.S.A. Notably, New Zealand maintained the first rank in number of visitors.
In 1999, 500,700 visitors went to New Zealand. This was followed by the U.K. with 600,000 and the U.S. with 300,000. Ten years later, the figure for New Zealand increased significantly by around 18%, maintaining the first rank of the number of Aus. visitors with 1,065,000 people. The U.K. also slightly rose, about 60%, from 600,000 to 640,000. The proportion of the US is the lowest among 7 destinations, just over half that of the U.K.
In terms of four remaining countries, the number of Australian. visitors coming to Indonesia climbed by 122%, from 150,000 to 320,000. Fiji and Japan have nearly the same figure – 120,000 and 100,000 in 1999 and 250,000 and 252,000 in 2009 respectively. Lastly, China had the lowest figure of Aus. travellers to 7 destinations in 1999 with just 86,000 people. However, after 10-year period, its growth rate became the highest (at 230%), reaching 300,000, 249% higher compared to the previous year.