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Kangaroo Island Airport Upgrade Business Case
Figure 9: Total visitation to South Australia and Kangaroo Island, 2001-11
Source: Kangaroo Island data sourced from Colmar Brunton, 2012; and Pacific Aviation Consulting, 2012. . SA data
sourced from Tourism SA, 2012; and Kangaroo Island Regional Tourism Profile, June 2010-2012.
5.1.2 Visitor origin
Many of the visitors to the Island are from interstate (42%) and overseas (26%), the
remainder originating from South Australia (33%). The below figure illustrates that for
the last 4 years the majority of visitors have originated from interstate.
Figure 10: Visitor origin, 2000/01 - 2011/12
Source: Colmer Brunton (2012)
Interstate visitors
Interstate visitors tend to originate from Victoria and New South Wales. It is estimated
that for 2011-12, 71% of all interstate visitors came from Victoria (36%) and New South
Wales (35%). One should note that this trend has been observed for the last 10 years,
see below table.
Being a strategically important tourist destination with such a large percentage of
visitors originating from interstate; it makes sense that any airport upgrade at Kangaroo
Island should be able to accommodate direct flights from other jurisdictions, particularly
Victoria (Melbourne) and New South Wales (Sydney). Melbourne and Sydney airports
are also key access gate ways for international visitors so the access benefits achieved
for interstate visitors would also likely extend to international visitation.
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