
01/09/2025
Airbnb’s $20.3B Economic Impact in Australia, 2024 Report Says
Australia: New research by Oxford Economics, commissioned by Airbnb, shows that spending associated with Airbnb contributed an estimated $20.3 billion to Australia’s economy in 2024.
This sum equates to approximately seven per cent of the country’s tourism GDP. Economic activity from Airbnb’s presence also helped support 107,000 jobs while contributing an estimated $7 billion in wage income, the report claims.
The research revealed a continued recovery in domestic travel, with domestic guests accounting for around 84 per cent of Airbnb stays in 2024 – an almost 10 percentage points increase on the 2019 pre-COVID share. Around half of all international visitors to Australia using Airbnb came from within the Asia Pacific region in 2024, with Singapore, New Zealand and mainland China the top three. UK travellers were the single largest source of international guests, accounting for 14 per cent of the total, followed closely by the United States (12 per cent).
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