Legislative Council Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2) 52 2 Parliament of South Australia Legislative Council published Answers to Questions National Visitor Survey NATIONAL VISITOR SURVEY The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY Legislative Council Leader of the Opposition NATIONAL VISITOR SURVEY In reply to the Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (13 June 2012). The Hon. G.E. GAGO Legislative Council Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Tourism, Minister for the Status of Women NATIONAL VISITOR SURVEY The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Tourism, Minister for the Status of Women): I am advised: The survey the Leader of the Opposition refers to is the National Visitor Survey (NVS) conducted by Tourism Research Australia, a division of the Federal Department of Resources Energy and Tourism. The NVS is Australia's primary measure of domestic tourism activity, being the major source of information on the characteristics and travel patterns of domestic tourists. Respondents are interviewed against NVS definitions based on those provided by the World Tourism Organisation (WTO). Therefore interviews are conducted with people who have travelled for purposes including holiday, visiting friends and relatives, business, education and employment, and must not have been away from home continuously for more than a year. Being relocated in the Cudlee Creek Caravan Park would not qualify under WTO standards as having 'taken a trip, or as being a visitor', and therefore these people would not be included in the NVS.