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SHORT-TERM VISITOR ARRIVALS ON HOLIDAY

OVERSEAS VISITOR ARRIVALS ON HOLIDAY, Western Australia - Top 20 Places of Origin
	2009-2010	Sep qtr 2010	Jun qtr 2010	Mar qtr 2010	Dec qtr 2009	Sep qtr 2009
Place of origin	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
VISITOR ARRIVALS(a)
United Kingdom(b)	45 055	6004	5 676	16 517	18 674	7 188
Singapore	42 626	8909	12 444	8 046	13 925	8 211
Malaysia	30 247	9323	8 440	5 749	8 699	7 359
Japan	13 670	4742	1 713	4 035	3 779	4 143
New Zealand	11 770	3556	2 938	1 943	3 126	3 763
Germany	10 097	2202	1 546	2 826	3 735	1 990
Indonesia	9 627	3327	2 318	1 709	2 762	2 838
United States of America	5 962	1227	1 245	1 347	1 990	1 380
Hong Kong(c)	5 320	1488	1 110	1 486	1 404	1 320
Thailand	5 257	693	1 107	1 953	1 397	800
South Africa	5 181	788	1 192	1 039	1 801	1 149
Switzerland	5 094	902	543	1 463	2 161	927
France	4 456	1251	651	1 363	1 343	1 099
Ireland	4 221	760	769	1 263	1 291	898
Italy	3 869	1086	433	790	1 345	1 301
China(d)	3 187	1062	566	1 042	752	827
South Korea	3 087	805	497	973	881	736
Netherlands	2 855	645	485	715	924	731
Taiwan	2 676	796	626	793	543	714
Canada	2 519	425	432	745	929	413
Total(e)	238 768	54 008	48 095	61 085	77 912	51 676
(a) Overseas visitors arriving by air on holiday, whose intended stay in Australia is less than 12 months (Original data).
(b) Includes Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
(c) Special Administrative Region of China.
(d) Excludes Special Administrative Regions and Taiwan Province.
(e) Total includes countries not listed.
Source: Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia (cat. no. 3401.0).

• Almost 238,800 overseas visitors arrived on holiday in WA in the year ending June 2010. The top five countries of origin were the United Kingdom (19%), Singapore (18%), Malaysia (13%), Japan (6%) and New Zealand (5%). A further 4% of overseas visitors were from Germany and Indonesia.
• Just over 54,000 tourists arrived in the September quarter 2010, an increase of 4.5% from the same quarter of the previous year. The rise was driven mainly by increasing numbers of visitors from North East and South East Asia. Malaysian tourists showed the largest increase, with 27% more tourists from that country than in the same quarter of the previous year.
• In the September quarter 2010, South East Asian countries, most notably Malaysia (17%) and Singapore (16%), accounted for 42% of all visitors.
• The September quarter saw a decline in the numbers visiting from Europe, Africa and the Americas. Visitors from the United Kingdom accounted for most of this decline, down 16% compared with the September quarter 2009.