International Travel and Migration: July 2010

Embargoed until 10:45am  –  20 August 2010
Media release  – 
China drives increase in visitors

Highlights

In July 2010 compared with July 2009:

  • Visitor arrivals (182,900) were up 4 percent.
  • There were more visitors from China (up 3,900), Japan (up 2,800), and Australia (up 1,600).
  • New Zealand residents departed on 208,000 overseas trips, up 5 percent.
  • New Zealand residents departed on more trips to Australia (up 7,700) and Samoa (up 1,000), but fewer to the United Kingdom (down 1,300).

In July 2010:

  • Permanent and long-term arrivals exceeded departures by 1,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis.
Graph: Monthly net PLT migration, July 2010.

Graph: Monthly visitor arrivals, July 2010.  

 Geoff Bascand 20 August 2010
 Government Statistician ISSN 1179-0407