Australia is the highest-ranked country from the Asia Pacific region. It is ranked ninth in the world. Australia is ranked 4th for its natural resources, with the most world heritage sites worldwide.
It has excellent air transport infrastructure (ranked third) as well as good general tourism infrastructure (ranked 9th). Australia also benefits from the strong government prioritisation of the tourism sector and effective destination-marketing campaigns.
International tourist arrivals (thousands), 2006 --- 5,064
International tourism receipts (US$ millions), 2007 .........22,298
Image: Tourists walk past a topiary sculpture of a samurai warrior at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. | Photograph: Daniel Munoz/Reuters
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