AUSTRALIA - Tourism reverses as more check out than in

Theage.com.au, January 21, 2008

FOR the first time in almost 20 years, the number of Australians going overseas for their holidays is poised to overtake the number of foreign tourists coming here, as one market booms and the other stagnates.
Preliminary estimates by the Bureau of Statistics suggest that foreign tourism into Australia stagnated again last year. Tourist numbers totalled 5.65 million, a rise of just 2%, on top of a rise of just 0.6% in 2006.
In sharp contrast, the number of Australians holidaying overseas shot up 11% in the 11 months to November, and has risen more than 60% in the past four years, as fears of terrorism have subsided and the dollar's value has soared.

>>Full article