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Summary
of asmal new zealand travel update - September 2006
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NEW ZEALAND OVERSEAS TRAVEL
UP 3% IN SEPTEMBER 2006
Overseas travel by New Zealand residents increased by a 6,400 trips or
3% in the month of September 2006. "Holiday" travel rose by
7%, with departures for "VFR" reasons down 2% and
"business" travel up 0.2%. In total, New Zealand overseas
travel was recorded at 1.86 million in the year ended September 2006 -
up by nearly 18,000 departures or 1% - on the same twelve month period
of the previous year. "Holiday" travel fell by less than 200
departures in the 2006 September year, with departures for "VFR"
and "business" reasons up 3%.
By top ten "countries of main destination" (in the 2005
calendar year), New Zealand travel to Australia increased by 3% in the
month under review, with departures to Fiji up 10% and to the United
States up 4%. Travel to the United Kingdom declined by 7% in the month
of September, with departures to China up 5% and to the Cook Islands up
7%. New Zealand travel to Thailand fell by 9% in the month of September,
with departures to Samoa and India up 11% and 59% respectively, with
travel to Hong Kong down 18%.
New Zealand "holiday" travel to Australia, as "area of
main destination", rose by 9% in the month of September 2006, with
departures to North America and Asia up 15% and 7% respectively. Travel
to Europe for "holiday" reasons declined by 12% in the month
under review, with departures to Fiji up 7% and to the "other"
South Pacific Islands up 21%. "Holiday" travel to the
"other" Americas grew by 51% in September, with departures to
Africa and the Middle East up 5%. Total overseas departures for
"holiday" reasons were recorded at 795,161 in the year ended
September 2006 - virtually unchanged from the September year 2005
result.
asmal new zealand
update
comprises a three 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 forty
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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