Tourism forecasting plays an important role in providing awareness and support for future development of the Australian tourism industry. Tourism Research Australia provides support to the Tourism Forecasting Committee and the sub committee, the Tourism Forecasting Technical Committee.

The Tourism Forecasting Committee is an independent body charged with providing present and potential tourism investors, industry and governments with consensus forecasts across the international, domestic and outbound tourism sectors.

Tourism Research Australia publishes the Forecast publication twice a year.  There are a selection of inbound, domestic and outbound forecasts available for the next 10 years, based on the April 2006 forecasts by the Tourism Forecasting Committee.