Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates’ methodology
On this page, we provide information about the MRTE methodology, including introduction, methodology overview, estimation steps, quality assurance process, limitation and how to use MRTE data. We also provide links to a detailed methodology document of MRTEs, MRTE Q&A sheet, quality assurance process, and other resources.
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The MRTE methodology is defined as the way to estimate the tourism expenditure based on data and how to categorise the spend into different categories, including international or domestic, different RTOs, regions, or TAs, or different product categories.
MRTE resources
- Detailed methodology document [PDF, 1,964KB](external link) — Tourism Evidence and Insights Centre (TEIC)
- MRTE Q&A sheet [PDF, 148KB](external link) — TEIC
- MRTE visualisations(external link) — TEIC
- Monthly data release(external link) — TEIC
- TEIC resources(external link) — TEIC
- MRTEs 2016-2020
MRTE data release calendar
Check upcoming scheduled tourism survey releases on our Data release calendar