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Personal travel services
A $ 21.28bn
75 Personal travel services ( excluding education-related travel , which makes up a significant segment of Australia ’ s service exports on its own ), maintained a steady year-on-year rise of 0.4 % in 2017 . The invisible export brought $ 15.18bn ( A $ 21.28bn ) into the economy , following on from $ 15.12bn ( A $ 21.19bn ) in 2016 . Overall , personal travel makes up 5.5 % of Australia ’ s exports . Currently , Australia is one of the beneficiaries of a tourism boom in the surging aviation markets of China and India : around 1.4mn visitors came to Australia from mainland China , marking a 13 % year-on-year increase , while visitor numbers from India rose 15 %, reaching 302,900 . www . businesschief . com