The local visitor economy is expected to get a sweet boost over the 2025 Easter and Anzac Day break with Australians planning on spending a combined $17.6 billion on travel, food and accommodation across the 10-day holiday period.
With back-to-back long weekends over the 2025 Easter and Anzac Day break, Aussies are making the most of the extended leave to head abroad with Booking.com revealing Tokyo, Seminyak (Bali) and Singapore among the top overseas destinations.
As Australian airports brace for a bumper Easter school holiday influx this year, new ING Bank Australia research also shows almost half of Aussie workers (49% or four million) have planned leave over the 2025 Easter and Anzac Day break.
The survey shows 43 per cent are travelling domestically and one in seven Aussies (13%) plan to head overseas.
Bleisure travel is also seeing a boost as Aussies combine work trips with holiday time and leisure travel – both overseas and domestically.
2025 Easter and Anzac Day break spending
Money-wise, Aussies taking leave and travelling domestically during the April 2025 Easter and Anzac Day break plan to spend around $216.91 per day on travel, food and accommodation.
This equates to an approximate spend of $2,169.10 per worker over the 10-day period, injecting $17.6 billion into the economy.
More than one in 10 (13%, the equivalent of 1 million Aussie workers) plan to spend as much money as they did during the recent Christmas period.
Local cafes, restaurants and bars look to reap the financial rewards from Aussies holidaying at home with 75 per cent of respondents saying they are likely to spend more money than usual at food and beverage venues during this time.
Bleisure extensions for business travellers
Corporate Traveller has revealed new booking data showing a jump in average trip length over the 2025 Easter and Anzac Day break travel window with one in three travellers turning work trips into week-long bleisure holidays – an increase of 20 per cent on 2023.
The data highlights a clear uplift in longer business travel over the 10-day period as the average trip length has also increased by 33 per cent on 2024, rising from six to eight days during the weeks of Easter and Anzac Day.
Melbourne–Perth is the most in-demand domestic corridor in late April, followed by Melbourne–Sydney, while Sydney–London tops long-haul bookings.
Perth and Brisbane are leading domestic bleisure destinations, while London, Shanghai, Auckland, Jakarta, and New York rank highest for international trips of seven days or more.
