| One of the areas that is closely being monitored by | | | | are confident that these will go up in the future. |
| Australian migration officials nowadays is the tourism | | | | With that, Tourism Australia, the country's foremost |
| sector. Indeed, with Australia being a popular travel | | | | tourism promotion industry have embarked on several |
| destination for a lot of people around the world, the | | | | programs aimed to further encouraging foreign |
| tourism industry is likely to expand even more. And | | | | travelers to visit the country. One of this is the $30 |
| many people are closely observing the industry as it | | | | million investment made by the agency last June to |
| grows. | | | | promote Australian tourism in China. Tourism Australia |
| It should be noted that the tourism industry is still pretty | | | | is hoping to capture the interest of more than 46 million |
| much on the recovery stage after the financial crisis of | | | | Chinese travelers each year, which is worth more $2 |
| 2007 to 2009. Because of the slowing down of the | | | | billion in the market. |
| world's economies, travel for leisure also dropped | | | | On the other hand, Tourism Australia is also hoping to |
| significantly. And being one of the centers of tourist | | | | attract more visitors from Southeast Asia. As a start |
| travels, Australia did significantly experienced the | | | | of their campaign, they have launched an Indonesian |
| effects of reduced tourist arrivals. | | | | language version of the agency's official website. |
| However, with the world's economy now starting to | | | | Tourism Australia officials are hopeful that, through this, |
| recover, tourism travel is also beginning to go up back | | | | they will be able to encourage Indonesian tourists to |
| to it's previous levels. It is interesting to note that | | | | learn more about Australia and eventually head there. It |
| Australia was in fact, one of the first countries to start | | | | is interesting to note that Indonesian tourist arrivals |
| getting up from the crisis. And with that, it was also | | | | have grown significantly since last year, posting a 24 |
| able to to quickly resume operation for its tourism | | | | percent increase last March. |
| activities. | | | | With this impressive figures and efforts, Australian |
| Indeed, the country has actually posted some | | | | tourism officials are enthusiastic that they will be able |
| impressive tourism figures in the last few months. | | | | to further expand the industry. However, they said that |
| According to statistics released by the government, | | | | they are still not you going to slow down in their work |
| the number of tourist arrivals have increased by at | | | | and even strive more to attract more travelers. |
| least five percent in the last three months. And officials | | | | |