62. This section provides the definitions of the domestic visitor components of consumer listed above.
63. Broadly, the definition of domestic visitor comprises residents of Australia making a trip in another part of the country for pleasure, recreation, visiting friends/relatives, holiday, sport, business, conventions, health, education/training and/or religious purposes. There are however, exceptions to this definition as noted in paragraph 50.
64. The definition does not include persons travelling to another part of Australia for employment purposes. Many of these travellers combine leisure purposes with employment so data may be required on them. Such travellers may be recorded in the statistics (assuming they are staying less than 12 months) but should be identified separately as visiting for employment/leisure purposes. This will enable comparison with international statistics, which exclude such travellers from the definition of visitor.
65. For purposes of statistics on domestic tourism a person is considered to be a resident of Australia (or a particular area) if they:
(a) have lived for most of the past 12 months in Australia (or a particular area)
(b) have lived in Australia, (or a particular area) for a shorter period and intend to return within 12 months to live in Australia (or a particular area).
66. Those international travellers who are excluded from the international visitor statistics (see paragraph 57) should be treated as residents of this country in domestic visitor statistics when travelling within Australia.
67. Trips undertaken by foreign nationals residing in Australia should be treated in the same way as trips undertaken by Australian citizens residing in this country. The essential criterion in defining a domestic visitor is residency (see paragraph 65), not nationality.
68. Some discretion should be used in dealing with visits to second homes. Visits to holiday homes, beach houses, houseboats, etc. should be included where the visits are for temporary recreational purposes. The following visits should be excluded:
- stays of relatively long duration
- stays undertaken on a frequent basis in second homes used primarily as alternative places of residence, not primarily for recreation.
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