Roy Chambers:

Every continent is far away from Australia, so there isn’t a lot of choice. But also Australia lacks a great deal of cultural variety. Plus, the cost of travelling in Australia can be fairly high, so with long holidays, it is easy to head off to another country and while the tickets are expensive, the cost of living there is cheap.

John Henry:

From my perspective, Americans seem more inwardly-looking. Millions of US citizens, of course, do travel but with 15 times Australia’s population, at a per capita rate, it is not as high as Australia.

Australians of my generation - ancient - were only just no longer being brought up as part of the ‘mother country.’ Prior to that, and for forty years after, unless you had lived overseas, unless you had made it overseas, you had not made it. It was the cultural cringe, which said that Australia was second to first Britain and then the US. Australians have led the world in Discovery and Invention (going right back to farming, terracing, fish-farming then to refrigeration in the 19th century, then to various modern answers to modern problems. Australian children are not taught this in schools and so believe other places must be more advanced.

Ajay Verma:

Originally Answered: Do Australians travel overseas more frequently than Americans?

Australians have been known to travel overseas more frequently and for longer periods of time compared to Americans. This may be due to geographical proximity to popular tourist destinations such as Asia and the Pacific Islands, as well as a cultural emphasis on travel and exploration. However, Americans are still known to be avid travelers, with many visiting popular destinations such as Europe, South America, and Asia.

Andrew Francis:

I think there’s a couple of reasons — We’re keenly aware of our geographic isolation in the world. Stuck away down the bottom of maps. Many Australians want to see what else there is to the world. The other reason is that we don’t have the hubris (many) Americans seem to have. We don’t imagine for a minute that everything worth seeing is in Australia, so we travel to experience what the rest of the world has to offer.

Chris Gallagher:

Originally Answered: Why do Australians travel overseas more than Americans?

I don't know but would think Aussies travel a lot. My daughter and her girlfriends spent six months travelling around Europe last year and added a month in Bali on the way home. This is not unusual for a lot of Australians. I am sixty eight and have lived and worked in various Asian countries.

Estanislao Deloserrata:

Originally Answered: Do Australians travel overseas more frequently than Americans?

Do Australians travel overseas more frequently than Americans?

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If you ever lived in Oz you’d understand the need to go somewhere else periodically.

John Yates:

I think it’s because many Australians & New Zealanders have a sense of isolation though I’m sure some will disagree with me.

Niels Henriksen:

Originally Answered: Why do Australians travel overseas more than Americans?

Because they are generally wise, cultured and well educated people with an attention span longer than 10 seconds - and they are always warmly welcome everywhere they go here in Europe ( within reason 😉) for instance, because they are great and down to earth mates, who are genuinely interested in us and don't feel the urge to constantly brag about how much freeer and better they are at everything than everybody else in the World 😉

CjW:

Originally Answered: Why do Australians travel overseas more than Americans?

Strange comparison and a poor assumption. Seriously? America has a population of more than 300 million people and a large GDP! About 30 million of those people are quite wealthy.

Americans are the second most traveled people in the world after the Finns.

The third most traveled nationality in the world are Swiss followed by (4) Danes (5) Nords (6) Chinese (7) New Zealanders (8) Canadians (9) Australians.

Like Olympic success, it's a combination of wealth (distribution of wealth) and size.

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Murali Tumahai:

It’s a combination of less variety in Australia compared to the variety found domestically for us Americans, along with dipping into our very nearby neighbors (I’m American, and have lived in Australia for over a decade - I have a fair grasp of what can be found in each location), and island fever.

Admittedly, it’s a very, very large island, but island fever nonetheless. I live on an island chain (Hawaii), and while we are literally in Paradise, that sense of being trapped is pretty real. You just start thinking and thinking of ANYWHERE to go to get off of the island.

As for variety - yes, Australia has Alice Springs, and the Whitsundays, down through Sydney, into the interior Outback, and on through Melbourne - but you have nothing like going from Alaska, through Kansas, and Portland, swinging by French New Orleans, dropping by Cuban Florida, New York, Sante Fe, LA, and ending up in Hawaii. We don’t even have the same local languages in some of these places. Australia has variety, but nothing like the US.

So when we are looking at our limited time schedules, and looking at ticket prices; and then trying to get the most bang out of it, we very frequently just do a road trip, or a 3 hour $150 ticket, to a closer location - and in the US, that still means domestic, usually.