Australian Tourists Are Big Spenders on Nightlife

Australian tourists are the highest spenders globally on experiences and nightlife, spending nearly one out of every five holiday dollars on these activities, a report has found. The annual report on global travel trends released late on May 16 by the Mastercard Economics Institute, a unit of the credit card giant, found Australian tourists spend 19 percent of their holiday cash on those activities, compared with a global average of 12 percent. “There is a difference in preferences, when folks from Australia are travelling around, they are doing it more for the experiences—that is more of the preference, rather than the retail therapy,” Mastercard chief economist David Mann told AAP. ...