Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Green for her first supplementary question. Yes, I can give you an answer to that question. Pre-pandemic, China was Australia's largest and most valuable inbound tourism market. In 2019, Australia received nearly 1.5 million short-term visitors from China. More than a quarter of a million of them were holiday-makers who travelled to Australia on the ADS scheme. Those ADS travellers spent more than half a billion dollars across Australia in 2019. The return of Chinese group tour travellers is particularly important in certain regions. This includes tropical North Queensland—did you hear that, Senator Canavan?—and some of our most iconic tourism drawcards. For example, the Sydney Opera House previously received large numbers of ADS travellers— (Time expired)