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Tourism
New South Wales is the crown jewel in one of world’s premier tourist destinations. More people holiday in NSW than anywhere else in Australia. With 26.3 million foreign visitors and 51.1 million domestic visitors each year, as well as a large and affluent local population, opportunities abound for new and existing tourism businesses.
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Education
New South Wales boasts a dynamic and multicultural education sector that caters for domestic and international students and researchers across a wide range of fields. International students study in a safe, supportive and inclusive environment where course quality is guaranteed through national quality assurance frameworks and regulation by government.
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Financial and professional services
NSW dominates the nation’s services industries. Financial Services comprise 85% of NSW’s industry output, highlighting the strength of the State’s knowledge-based economy which centres around banking, insurance and finance, legal, accounting and engineering. Uniquely located, our time zone bridges financial markets closing in the US and opening in the UK. Australia has long-standing links to fast growing Asian markets.
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Arts, culture and creative
NSW’s thriving arts, culture and creative sector is the largest in Australia. Creative businesses choose NSW due to its cluster of inventive filmmakers, artists, designers, writers, musicians, dancers, advertising agencies and Australia’s largest concentration of arts-related ICT businesses such as animation and design. The industry benefits from a strong pipeline of government funding and private patronage.
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Information and communication technology
The success of the NSW ICT sector is founded on the state’s world-class infrastructure and business networks, with six international fibre optic cable networks linking Australia with Asia, Europe and the United States. The sector benefits from a highly skilled workforce of software engineers, computer scientists and programmers backed by exceptional universities and courses which attract thousands of foreign students every year.
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Tourism
NSW has the largest number of companies dedicated to providing architectural, engineering, surveying, and property and business services of any Australian state. Infrastructure-related construction in NSW is experiencing major growth.