Travel boost

INTERNATIONAL travel is on the rise, with provisional data for April 2022 showing 1.2 million international border crossings to and from Australia, according to data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

The increase, up from 710,000 border crossings in March 2022, represented a large change from a year ago when there were only 118,000 movements.

However, this was still only a third (34 per cent) of the preCovid travel in April 2019, when there were 3.5 million border crossings.

The largest source country for short-term visitors arriving in March was the UK (27,000), followed by New Zealand (19,000) and India (15,000).