Spending profile of travellers with accessible needs

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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%).