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More Australians appear to be taking overseas holidays than ever before.

This report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Australian residents made a record 6.8 million short-term trips overseas in 2009-10.

This is up from 5.8 million movements in 2008-09, and more than double the movements ten years ago.

The most popular destination for Australian residents going overseas on short-term trips were:
New Zealand (over 1 Million movements)
Indonesia (650,000 movements)
USA (630,000)
UK (460,000)
Thailand (430,000)

These top five destinations alone, accounted for just under half of all short-term resident departures for the year.

Reasons given for these travel movements were:
55% Holiday
24% Visiting friends and relatives
11% Business

The average time overseas was 15 days.

The movement rate (number of international movements per 1,000 state or territory population) for short-term resident departures varied considerably across the states and territories.

In 2009-10, The difference between the States was very marked:
434 per 1,000 Western Australia
429 per 1,000 Australian Capital Territory
331 per 1,000 New South Wales
150 per 1,000 Tasmania

Source: ABS http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/3401.0