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SHORT-TERM ARRIVALS ON HOLIDAY

• Over 243,000 overseas visitors arrived in Western Australia in the year ending June 2008. The top five countries of origin were the United Kingdom (25%); Singapore (16%); Japan and Malaysia (both over 8%); and New Zealand (6%).
• More than 62,000 overseas visitors arrived in the March quarter 2009. This is 4.5% fewer visitors than in the same quarter of the previous year. In particular, there were fewer visitors from United Kingdom (down 12%) and Japan (down 20%), reflecting the economic downturn in those countries. The number of visitors from South Africa was also significantly down in percentage terms ( -30%).
• In comparison with the same quarter of 2008, the March quarter 2009 saw more overseas visitors from South-East Asia, particularly Malaysia, which had 25% more arrivals than in the same quarter of the previous year. In the last two quarters, the number of visitors from Malaysia was almost double the number from Japan.

1 Short-term Overseas Visitor Arrivals, top 10 countries of origin: Original
	2007-08	Mar qtr 08	Jun qtr 08	Sep qtr 08	Dec qtr 08	Mar qtr 09
Countries	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
VISITOR ARRIVALS
United Kingdom	60 755	21 611	8 138	8 548	20 471	19 136
Singapore	39 927	7 787	10 140	6 543	13 544	8 440
Japan	20 490	4 254	2 806	5 230	4 009	3 422
Malaysia	19 629	5 284	4 135	3 296	7 750	6 618
New Zealand	13 840	2 633	3 393	3 042	3 048	2 369
Indonesia	7 535	1 889	1 506	2 105	2 778	1 695
Thailand	6 338	528	1 528	598	768	735
South Africa	6 023	1 391	1 440	1 613	2 303	981
United States of America	5 601	1 594	1 458	669	1 461	1 423
Hong Kong	4 885	1 597	736	809	1 406	1 533
Europe	35 497	9 692	5 317	6 901	12 459	9 331
Total	243 346	65 051	45 070	44 584	76 427	62 131