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Travel - NZ resident arrivals by country of main destination and region of residence Year ended June 2015–2024

Stats NZ

Definitions

New Zealand-resident travellers: People who live in New Zealand and are travelling overseas for less than 12 months.
Country of main destination: The country where a New Zealand-resident traveller will spend the most time while overseas. Departure cards do not ask travellers which other countries they intend to visit on the same trip.

Data calculation/treatment

From March 2020 to July 2022, the New Zealand government implemented measures to protect New Zealanders from the COVID-19 virus, effectively limiting travel to and from New Zealand.

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Limitations of the data

Country of main destination (main country visited) comes from sampled data, and the sum of individual figures for countries may differ from totals derived from complete data.

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.

Data provided by

Stats NZ

Dataset name

International Travel: NZ-resident traveller arrivals by main destination and NZ area (Monthly) June 2024

Webpage:

https://infoshare.stats.govt.nz/

How to find the data

At URL provided select: Tourism > International Travel and Migration - ITM > NZ-resident traveller arrivals by main destination and NZ area (Monthly).
Select 'Rolling Annual' under the Travel Period tab. All other variables were selected to create this dataset.

Import & extraction details

File as imported: International Travel: NZ-resident traveller arrivals by main destination and NZ area (Monthly) June 2024

From the dataset International Travel: NZ-resident traveller arrivals by main destination and NZ area (Monthly) June 2024, this data was extracted:

  • Rows: 16-124
  • Columns: 2-2,377
  • Provided: 2,090 data points

Dataset originally released on:

August 13, 2024

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 electronic passport and flight records by the New Zealand Customs Service. New Zealand area comes from administrative data from the Integrated Data Infrastructure.