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MAY KEY FIGURES

		May '11	Apr '11 to May '11	May '10 to May'11
		'000	% change	% change
Short-term visitor arrivals
	Trend	480.3	-0.5	-0.4
	Seasonally adjusted	488.5	-1.0	. .
	Original	386.6	. .	. .
Short-term visitor departures
	Trend	645.9	1.6	10.5
	Seasonally adjusted	649.4	-5.9	. .
	Original	619.4	. .	. .
. . not applicable

Visitor arrivals, Short-term

Resident departures, Short-term

• Trend estimates: Short-term visitor arrivals during May 2011 (480,300 movements) decreased 0.5% compared with April 2011 (482,600 movements). This followed monthly decreases of 0.8% in March 2011 and 0.6% in April 2011. The current trend estimate for arrivals is 0.4% lower than in May 2010.
• Seasonally adjusted estimates: During May 2011, short-term visitor arrivals (488,500 movements) recorded a decrease of 1.0% compared with April 2011 (493,400 movements). This followed a monthly decrease of 2.2% in March 2011 and an increase of 3.4% in April 2011.
• Original estimates: There were 386,600 short-term visitor arrivals to Australia in May 2011.

• Trend estimates: Short-term resident departures during May 2011 (645,900 movements) increased 1.6% compared with April 2011 (635,400 movements). This followed monthly increases of 0.6% in March 2011 and 1.8% in April 2011. The current trend estimate for departures is 10.5% higher than in May 2010.
• Seasonally adjusted estimates: During May 2011, short-term resident departures (649,400 movements) decreased by 5.9% compared with April 2011 (689,800 movements). This followed a monthly decrease of 5.7% in March 2011 and an increase of 19.0% in April 2011.
• Original estimates: There were 619,400 short-term resident departures from Australia during May 2011.