INSIGHTS & RESEARCH

Learn more about visitor numbers and behaviour.

Visitation

Our region benefits from fantastic product (thanks to our operators), a strong regional brand, and close proximity to Melbourne.  As such, we typically enjoy healthy visitation, which strongly grows year-on-year.

Destination Central Victoria work closely with the State Government to measure visitation to our region. We also work closely with Visit Victoria on tracking brand, statewide campaigns and consumer sentiment.

Visitation data is shared at our industry briefings and you can access this data by viewing past briefing presentations under the ‘Resources’ section of the website.

Also, don’t hesitate to call us to talk about this data or request any other data you might need for grant submissions and the like. If you’d like detailed visitation data, please email info@dcvtourism.com.au.  

Daylesford & the Macedon Ranges

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Annual % growth in total visitors (overnight and day trip)

Daylesford & the Macedon Ranges

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Annual % change in domestic daytrip visitors 2023/24

Research

Please contact us if you’d like access to any research documents, as data sources are constantly changing.

We often conduct our own research in order to make informed strategic decisions, and we also access local, state and federal government research. The recent Destination Management Plan uses a number of recent research sources that assisted us make decisions in the plan that were informed and data driven.

If you’d like demographic, visitation and trend data, please email us at info@dcvtourism.com.au.  In your email, please state clearly what data you are after, including date ranges.

If you’re in a rush, these links might help, although as we mention above, the links and data sources often change.

Victoria Visitation Insights

Explore a range of research to understand the trends and issues impacting the sector to enable better data-led decision-making.

Tourism Industry Research

Tourism Research Australia

Tourism Research Australia (TRA) is a branch within Austrade. We are Australia’s leading provider of quality tourism intelligence across both international and domestic markets.

TRA website

Tourism Australia

Tourism Australia provides a number of visitor statistics, market reports and research strategies at a national level.

TA website

VTIC Data & Insights

The State and Federal government provide comprehensive research analysis and reporting on a regular basis for the tourism industry and small business. VTIC also produces a small number of reports for industry.

VTIC Data & Insights

Compared with 2023, our region had the highest visitation growth year-on-year of any of the 11 regions in Victoria. We welcomed 2.983m visitors in 2024. This represents 10% YoY growth vs 2023.

Overnight spend, visitors and nights in regional Victoria have all fully recovered and are back to pre-pandemic levels, with strong growth in the interstate market, while intrastate and daytrip visitors were just below the pre-pandemic results, reflecting some cooling in domestic demand.