In 2005 around 51 per cent of all international visitors, 13 per cent of domestic overnight visitors and 7 per cent of domestic day visitors participated in at least one cultural and heritage activity. 

This Snapshot presents information on international, domestic overnight and domestic day visitors who participated in cultural and heritage activities.

 Culture and heritage visitors are defined as having participated in, among other activities, at least one of the following seven tourism activities while travelling in Australia:

• attend theatre, concerts or other performing arts
• visit museums or art galleries
• visit art, craft workshops or studios
• attend festivals, fairs, or cultural events
• experience Aboriginal art, craft and cultural displays
• visit an Aboriginal site or community, or 
• visit historical/heritage buildings, sites or monuments.

This Snapshot data has been primarily extracted from the Tourism Research Australia International and National Visitor Surveys.