Gold Coast community leaders will be disappointed by data published yesterday by Tourism Queensland which show domestic visitor numbers declined in the 2011 calendar year, while other Queensland regions experienced an increase in domestic visitors:

International visitor numbers have declined in all regions, obviously due in large part to the high value of the Australian dollar:

The Tourism Queensland regional snapshots which contain these data are unfortunately not easy to find on the Tourism Queensland website. You need to start on the destination visitor data page and drill down into the specific region.