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Summary
of asmal new zealand travel update - April 2007
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NEW ZEALAND OVERSEAS TRAVEL
UP BY JUST 0.5% IN APRIL 2007
Overseas
travel by New Zealand residents increased by 856 trips or 0.5% in the
month of April 2007. "Holiday" travel increased by 1%, with
departures for "VFR" reasons down 4% and "business"
travel up 7%. In total, New Zealand overseas travel was recorded at 1.88
million in the year ended April 2007 - up by 10,300 departures or 0.6% -
on the same twelve month period of the previous year.
"Holiday" travel declined by 1% in the year ended April 2007,
with departures for "VFR" and "business" reasons up
2% and 3% respectively.
By top ten "countries of main destination" (in the 2006
calendar year), New Zealand travel to Australia increased by
1% in the month under review, with departures to Fiji down 3% and
to the United Kingdom down 17%. Travel to the United States
rose by just 0.2% in the month of April, with departures to China
up 30% and to the Cook Islands and Samoa up 18%. New
Zealand travel to Thailand fell by 4% in the month of April, with
departures to India up 14% and to Hong Kong down 19%.
New Zealand "holiday" travel to Australia, as
"area of main destination", increased by 3% in the month of
April 2007, with departures to Asia and Fiji up 4%. Travel to Europe for
"holiday" reasons declined by 8% in the month under review,
with departures to North America down 14% and to the "other"
South Pacific Islands up 7%. "Holiday" travel to the
"other" Americas increased by 4% in April, with departures to
Africa and the Middle East down 3%. Total overseas departures for
"holiday" reasons were recorded at 791,467 in the year ended
April 2007 - down 1% on the year ended April 2006.
asmal new zealand
update
comprises a four page analysis of New Zealand overseas
travel, published every month as an optional update companion to the
quarterly asmal new zealand travel report.
asmal new
zealand update
contains text summary, charts and tabulations, covering the latest
monthly departure results, including (1) New Zealand overseas
departures by "purpose of travel"; (2) New Zealand
overseas travel by area of main destination; (3) New Zealand
overseas "holiday" travel by area of main destination; and
(4) total New Zealand overseas departures to nearly sixty
countries of main destination.
asmal
new zealand update is published on a monthly basis in Acrobat
format and emailed to all
Option Two asmal new zealand travel
subscribers for just an additional NZ$72/AU67 per annum.
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