Australia expecting 10,000 tourists from India in 2018 Commonwealth Games

Games to be held in April, next year

Tourism Australia hopes to receive around 10,000 visitors from India for the next year’s Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, as it looks to co-promote sports and lesser known destinations in the Indian market.

Around 260,000 Indians visited Australia last year and arrivals grew 11 per cent. Over 40 per cent of Indians travel to meet friends and relatives and destinations are limited to Melbourne and Sydney.  Tourism Australia is taking steps to attract more high spending leisure and business visitors from India to the country. Arrivals from India are growing in double digits for last four years.

“We are hoping for around