Inbound Tourism Volume Index
Monthly Foreign Tourist Arrivals, indexed against the trailing five-year mean for the same calendar month.
Source. Ministry of Tourism — Monthly Foreign Tourist Arrivals, compiled from Bureau of Immigration data.
Scaling. based to 100 = trailing 5-year mean for the same calendar month.
Who hedges this. Hotel chains and resort operators with fixed cost bases; tour operators; heritage-site and airport concessionaires whose revenue is footfall-linked.
Methodology note. A hotel group can hedge its debt and its energy costs but not the thing that actually determines its year. Tourism collapses are frequent, severe, and driven by causes nobody can hedge today.