Australian Tourism Regions: Official Boundaries

Australia's tourism regions are defined by Tourism Research Australia (TRA) in consultation with national and state/territory tourism organisations. The boundaries are constructed from allocations of whole Statistical Area Level 2s (SA2s) from the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). TRA manages and updates these boundaries every other year, advising the ABS prior to each Census.

Use Cases

• Mapping tourism infrastructure and visitor flows based on official regional boundaries.
• Allocating economic or visitor statistics to tourism regions using the SA2 allocation file.
• Planning regional tourism marketing campaigns using standardized geographic units.
• Integrating tourism region data with other ASGS-based datasets for cross-sectoral analysis.

Strengths

• Boundaries are officially defined by Tourism Research Australia (TRA).
• Built on the standardized Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS), ensuring compatibility with other national datasets.
• Updated every other year by TRA to reflect changes prior to Census updates.

Limitations

• Column names and specific attribute data are not provided in the available metadata.
• There is a conflict in the stated license between CC-BY-2.5 and CC-BY-4.0 across entries.
• Dataset size and row counts are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Tourism Research Australia

Collection Method

Constructed from allocations of whole Statistical Area Level 2s (SA2s) of the ASGS, defined in consultation with tourism organisations.

Time Range

2020-2021

Freshness

Last updated metadata dates are 2026-05-16 and 2026-05-14, but the core data represents boundaries for 2020/2021.

Geography

Australia (all states and territories)