Indian tourists continue to arrive in Australia in record numbers

Tourists have spent more than 113 billion dollars in Australia in the last year, and they're escaping the cities for the bush, coast and outback. Preetinder Singh Grewal reports…

Bollywood star Parineeti Chopra was recently appointed a brand ambassador of Tourism Australia and honoured as a friend of Australia. Source: Instagram/Parineeti

The latest International and National Visitor Survey shows, Australia welcomed 8.4 million visitors in the 12 months from September 2017.

1.3 million visitors came from China alone – an increase of 8 per cent.

It’s the biggest market, with Chinese visitors spending more than 11.5 billion dollars.

But India shows the strongest growth - with visitor numbers increased by 20 per cent to more than 324-thousand.

Here is the full report: