May 6, 2021 9:58
Tourism Australia is rolling out the next phase of it of its Holiday Here This Year domestic campaign featuring Hamish Blake and Zoe Foster-Blake, calling on Aussies to “go big” by booking an “epic holiday”.
The new $9 million Epic Holidays campaign seeks to stimulate demand for the “epic experiences” on offer in Australia available when booking a longer domestic holiday.
Trips of five nights or more contributed over $20 billon to the Australian economy in 2020, and over $30 billion in 2019. However, of the 29.4 million holiday trips that Aussies took in 2020, only 18% of these trips were 5 nights or more. In 2019, before COVID-19 hit, the average duration of overnight trips that Australians took was 3.6 nights. If this average duration increased to five nights or more, the projected value to the economy is over $30 billion annually.