This estimate is consistent with analysis undertaken by the Bureau of Tourism Research and
published in the recent paper Sports Tourism: An Australian Perspective, which found that 6 per
cent of day trips and 5 per cent of overnight trips taken by Australians in Australia, were taken
with sport as the primary motivation. This corresponds to expenditure of $1847 million by
domestic sports tourists, of which $461 million was on day trips and the remaining $1386
million was spent on overnight trips.