Trips to Tonga taken by people living in New Zealand
2017–2020, number of arrivals from short-term trips
Definitions
New Zealand-resident travellers: people who live in New Zealand and are travelling overseas for less than 12 months.
Data calculation/treatment
Since January 2020, governments have imposed international travel restrictions in multiple countries, due to the spread of COVID-19 around the world. In March 2020, the New Zealand government introduced further measures to protect New Zealanders from the COVID-19 virus, effectively limiting travel to New Zealand and travel within New Zealand.
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Changes to data collection/processing
Before November 2018, the travel purpose of New Zealand-resident travellers was based on departure card responses and linked to the correspondent arrival card via the passport number.
From November 2018, they are based on arrival card responses. This results in different patterns in purpose of travel. The two series should not be compared.
The travel purpose categories of New Zealand-resident travellers have been revised back to January 2020.
From November 2018 to December 2019, the travel purposes of 'Holiday/vacation', 'Visiting friends/relatives', and 'Conference/convention' were unavailable.
From January 2020, these travel purpose categories are separately available from a redesigned arrival card and excluded from the 'Other' category.
Until a full 12 months of data are available for each new travel purpose, year ended totals for the travel purpose of 'Other' will continue to include 'Holiday/vacation', 'Visiting friends/relatives', and 'Conference/convention'.
Data provided by
Dataset name
International Travel: NZ-resident traveller arrivals by EVERY country of main destination and purpose (Annual-Dec) December 2020
Webpage:
http://archive.stats.govt.nz/infoshare/
How to find the data
At URL provided select: Tourism > International Travel and Migration - ITM > NZ-resident traveller arrivals by EVERY country of main destination and purpose (Annual-Dec).
All variables were selected to create this dataset.
Import & extraction details
File as imported: International Travel: NZ-resident traveller arrivals by EVERY country of main destination and purpose (Annual-Dec) December 2020
From the dataset International Travel: NZ-resident traveller arrivals by EVERY country of main destination and purpose (Annual-Dec) December 2020, this data was extracted:
- Rows: 4-7
- Columns: 2-2,025
- Provided: 8,096 data points
This data forms the table Travel - NZ resident arrivals by country of main destination and purpose Year ended December 2017–2020.
Dataset originally released on:
February 16, 2021
About this dataset
International travel covers the number and characteristics of New Zealand resident travellers (short-term movements) entering New Zealand.
Purpose of collection
To track travel movements of New Zealand residents.
Method of collection/Data provider
Data is obtained from the responses given on arrival cards.