Tourists from China are the biggest spenders in Australia and they're likely to splash out more in future.
China is Australia's fastest growing inbound tourism market, currently fourth behind New Zealand, the UK and the US, Tourism Research Australia (TRA) says.
But they outspent the other four in 2010 to the tune of $3.1 billion, after Chinese visits rose to 454,000.
Most of them went to the gateway cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth but seven per cent spent nights in regional Australia.
Tropical north Queensland, the NSW south coast and Hunter region and outback NSW were the most popular regional destinations.
"Chinese visitors accounted for 13 per cent of all international nights spent in outback NSW," TRA says.
The Tourism Research forecasting committee says it expects visitor arrivals from China to rise 26 per cent to 571,000.
In the longer term to 2020, average growth in arrivals of 7.2 per cent is forecast with China to become the most valuable inbound market and the second largest after NZ.
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