Tourism is a key economic driver generating over 73,000 jobs and injecting over $5.9 billion into the Western Australian economy.
In June 2011, Tourism Research Australia released an update for 2008/09 on the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA).
A TSA is a set of statistical tables based on data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) that measures the economic contribution of tourism to the Australian economy. The TSA reports the economic contribution of tourism to the economy in relation to total output, value added and employment. The development of a TSA is necessary because there is no tourism "industry" identified within the current national accounting framework.
The new TSAs should be considered to provide the most recent and accurate data on tourism's contribution to the economy.
Future releases: The next issue of the Tourism Satellite Account fact sheet for Western Australia (2009/10) is expected for release mid June 2012.
Download the latest Tourism Satellite Account fact sheet:
The economic contribution of tourism to Western Australia in 2008/09 fact sheet (774KB)
Download the Tourism Satellite Account full report:
The economic contribution of tourism to Western Australia in 2008/09 (721KB)
Visit Tourism Research Australia website to download a summary of the National Tourism Satellite Account 2010-11.