International Travel and Migration: February 2009

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International travel down, net migration up

Highlights

  • Visitor arrivals (256,600) were down 9 percent from February 2008 (280,500).

 

  • There were fewer visitors from the United Kingdom (down 7,500), the United States (down 5,600), China (down 3,400) and Korea (down 2,000), but more from Australia (up 2,200).

 

  • New Zealand-resident departures (96,700) were down 10 percent from February 2008 (107,900).

 

  • New Zealand residents departed on fewer trips to Australia (down 5,900) and Fiji (down 1,200).

 

  • Permanent and long-term arrivals exceeded departures by 1,700 on a seasonally adjusted basis.
  Graph, Monthly Net Permanent and Long-term Migration.

 Graph, Monthly Visitor Arrivals.

 Geoff Bascand 20 March 2009
 Government Statistician ISSN 1179-0407

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