Spending profile of travellers with accessibility needs
All data relate to June quarter 2023.
Average spend per trip
Daytrips
- Travellers with accessibility needs spent approximately the same on average for daytrips as other travellers
- Average spend per daytrip for travellers with accessibility needs was $145 per trip (compared with $143 for other travellers)
Overnight trips
- Travellers with accessibility needs on average spent less on overnight trips than other travellers
- Average spend per overnight trip for travellers with accessibility needs was $847 per trip (compared with $943 for other travellers)
Spend per night (overnight trips)
- Travellers with accessibility needs on average spent $238 per night on overnight trips (compared with $281 for other travellers).
Trip Expenditure Items
The largest 3 expenses for overnight travellers with accessibility needs were:
- accommodation (which represented 28% of total trip spend),
- takeaway and restaurant meals (17%) and
- transportation (15%)
Modes of transport used by travellers
Transport to stopover destinations
- The majority (77%) of travellers with accessibility needs used self-drive vehicles to travel to their stopover destinations
- 17% travelled by aircraft
- 6% used other forms of transport (train, bus, etc.)
Local transport (transport used at stopover location)
- The majority (79%) of travellers with accessibility needs did not use another form of local transport at their stopover destination (other than the form of transport used to travel to their destination)
- Among the 21% of travellers with accessibility needs that did use another form of local transport, the most popular forms were ride share (used by 7.1% of travellers), taxi or chauffeur driven hire car (6.5%), bus (6.1%), train (5.6%), tram (4.7%) and ferry (1.9%).