Australia a top destination for North American luxury visitors

AMERICAN and Canadian high-end travellers are strongly contributing to the substantial growth in US visitation to #Australia, with international luxury travel network Virtuoso revealing a 20% growth in bookings out of the US for the second half of 2015. 

Virtuoso Asia Pacific managing director, Michael Londregan said the figures prove that Australia is a strong international destination in the luxury field. ‘Australia is hot on the travel agenda for American and Canadian high-end travellers. States such as Queensland (up 48%), Victoria (up 26%), and Western Australia (up 11%) were recording significantly increased bookings on 2014 and figures for the current year were showing another year of growth.’

Tourism Australia managing director John O’Sullivan says the organization had placed increased focus on building high yield markets including investing in joint campaigns and sponsoring key events at last year’s Virtuoso’s annual Travel Week in Las Vegas.

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Capital attractions for US visitors, as London leads in Google arts searches

LONDON’S leading museums and galleries had 2.4 million visits by Americans in 2014/15, up by nine percent on the previous year, according to figures published by London & Partners, the official promotional company for the capital to mark the launch of the city’s Autumn Season of Culture.

It means the US now ties with France as London’s top tourism market by volume, followed by Italy, Spain, and Germany.

Separate statistics released by Google flags up #London as the most Googled city on the planet for art galleries, the performing arts, and innovative art and design. London’s theatres generate more searches than those in any other city, while international searches for globally renowned museums rank the #ScienceMuseum in London as the world’s most Googled museum. The #NaturalHistoryMuseum and the British Museum rank second and third according to Google, followed by The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.

The number of international visitors coming to London continues to rise, reaching 17.4 million last year.

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