(2) UNWTO (2008) defines visitor as a traveller “taking a trip to a main destination outside his/her usual environment, for less than a year, for any main purpose (business, leisure or other personal purpose) other than to beemployed by a resident entity in the country or place visited. These trips taken by visitors qualify as tourism trips” (UNWTO, 2008, p.10). UNWTO (2008) defines an overnight visitor as a tourist. Thus, with the exception of a very small number of passengers passing through (transit passengers e according to data from Australian government (Dept. Resources, Energy and Tourism (DRET)) transit passengers are approximately 0.25% and 0.2% of total inbound traffic from Japan and China, respectively), all non-resident arrivals into Australia are tourists;