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2014-15 to 2015-16 % change

		Tourism	Total Economy
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
	Current prices	7.4	2.3
	Chain volume measure	6.1	2.8
Gross Value Added at basic prices
	Current prices	7.5	2.7
	Chain volume measure	6.1	2.7
Employed persons		1.2	2.0
Hours worked index		-1.1	1.7
Gross value added per hour worked Exports of goods and services, current prices		6.9 11.1	1.0 -1.9

Source(s): (a) Australian National Accounts: Tourism Satellite Account (cat. no. 5249.0); (b) Australian System of National Accounts (cat. no. 5204.0); (c) International Trade in Goods and Services, Australia (cat no. 5368.0)

2015-16 Key Points

CHAIN VOLUME MEASURES

• Direct tourism Gross Domestic Product (GDP), in volume terms, increased by 6.1%, compared with real GDP growth of 2.8%.
• Direct tourism gross value added at basic prices, in volume terms increased by 6.1%, compared to gross value added for all industries which increased by 2.7%.
• Internal tourism consumption (total domestic and international consumption in Australia) in volume terms, increased by 6.1%. Of this figure, domestic tourism consumption increased by 4.7% while international tourism consumption grew by 10.1%.
• Direct tourism gross value added per hour work (a measure of tourism labour productivity) increased by 6.9% compared to growth for the whole economy of 1.0%.

• Direct tourism GDP increased by 7.4% to $52,918m, compared with GDP growth of 2.3%.
• Tourism share of GDP increased to 3.2% from 3.0%.

• Direct tourism gross value added increased by 7.5% to $48,529m.

• Internal tourism consumption increased by 6.1% to $129,895m.
• Domestic tourism consumption increased by 4.4% to $95,672m.
• Tourism exports (international tourism consumption in Australia) increased by 11.1% to $34,222m.
• Tourism imports (outbound tourism consumption by Australian residents on outbound trips) increased by 7.2% to $38,555m.

• Tourism employed persons increased by approximately 6,800 employees to 580,200 employed persons.
• Tourism share of total employment remains unchanged at 4.9%.
• Hours worked in tourism decreased by 1.1%, compared with an increase of 1.7% for the overall economy.