International travel: November 2019
We have corrected a scanning error affecting travel purpose for visitor arrivals for the November 2019 month. Overall visitor totals remain unaffected. This correction affects:
- 'International travel: November 2019' - Table 5: 'Overseas visitor arrivals, by travel purpose and country of last permanent residence'.
- 'International visitor arrivals to New Zealand: November 2019' - Tables 5-8, 11-22, 25-32, 35-50, 53-58, 61, 62 - 'Key characteristics of visitors…'
We regret the error and apologise for any inconvenience caused.
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Key facts
Overseas visitor arrivals were down by 13,700 to 372,100 in November 2019, compared with November 2018. The biggest changes were in arrivals from:
- Malaysia (down 3,000)
- United States (down 2,200)
- Australia (down 1,600)
- China (down 1,100)
- Canada (down 1,000).
New Zealand residents returning
The number of New Zealand residents returning from an overseas trip in November 2019 was up by 11,800 to 233,700, compared with November 2018. The biggest changes were in New Zealand residents arriving from:
- Japan (up 5,800)
- Australia (up 2,800)
- Indonesia (up 1,900)
- India (up 1,600)
- United States (down 1,300).
Annual arrivals
In the November 2019 year compared with the November 2018 year, the number of:
- visitor arrivals was 3.89 million, up by 42,200
- New Zealand-resident traveller arrivals was 3.08 million, up by 68,400.
More data
Use Infoshare to access time-series data for international travel and migration:
Subject category: Tourism
Group: International travel and migration – ITM
Definitions and metadata
International travel – DataInfo+ gives general methodology used to produce international travel and migration statistics.
International travel concepts – DataInfo+ gives definitions of terms used in this release.
Subnational short-term NZ-resident arrivals – DataInfo+ gives methodology for determining the New Zealand-location information in short-term New Zealand-resident arrival records.
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Next release
International travel: December 2019 will be released on 17 February 2020.