Australian trips to Indonesia surge in November

Indonesia was proven to be the top holiday destination for Australians in November, according to the latest ABS data. Tourism and Transport Forum CEO Margy Osmond has pointed out, however, that the flights would have been booked “well in advance”. Ms Osmond noted this means there wouldn’t have been a “great deal of spontaneity” in the destination choice. “So they were probably a reflection of cheap deals that were offered much earlier in the year when people made that decision,” she told Sky News Australia. “So when we asked people just before Christmas what their intentions were, for the first time in about longer than I can remember, Bali was not in the top five of places that people were intending to go.”