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NEW ZEALAND VISITOR ARRIVALS INTO SELECTED OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS

Visitors arriving at overseas destinations are normally required by the Immigration authorities to complete an arrival form calling for some degree of information to be entered concerning their visit to that destination. After processing, this information comprises the basic source of data employed in the compilation of a destination's "visitor arrival" statistics. A visitor is generally defined to be any person visiting a country, other than that in which he or she is normally resident in, for a period of more than 24 hours.

Hong Kong overseas visitor arrivals - August 2007
Total overseas visitor arrivals into Hong Kong increased by 8% in the month of August 2007, with visitors from New Zealand up 25%. New Zealand visitors accounted for less than 1% of the Hong Kong arrival total in the year ended August and were recorded at 111,328 - up 20% on the year ended August 2006.

Singapore overseas visitor arrivals - August 2007
Total overseas visitor arrivals into Singapore increased by 5% in the month of August 2007, with visitors from New Zealand down 14%. New Zealand visitors accounted for just over 1% of the Singapore arrival total in the year ended August and were recorded at 114,072 - down by 7% on the year ended August 2006.

Samoa overseas visitor arrivals - July 2007
Total overseas visitor arrivals into Samoa declined by 10% in the month of July 2007, with visitors from New Zealand up 13%. New Zealand visitors accounted for 40% of the Samoa arrival total in the year ended July and were recorded at 47,417 - up 9% on the July year 2006.

United Kingdom overseas visitor arrivals - March 2007
Total overseas visitor arrivals into the United Kingdom increased by 8% in the first quarter of 2007, with visitors from New Zealand down 3%. New Zealand visitors accounted for 0.7% of the United Kingdom arrival total in the year ended March 2007 and were recorded at 222,000 - up 3% on the year ended March 2006.

New Caledonia overseas visitor arrivals - July 2007
Total overseas visitor arrivals into New Caledonia declined by 5% in the month of July 2007, with visitors from New Zealand down 4%. New Zealand visitors accounted for just under 8% of the New Caledonia arrival total in the year ended July 2007 and were recorded at 7,969 - up by 17% on the year ended July 2006.

asmal database of latest available twelve month New Zealand visitor arrival results into selected overseas destinations

Canada overseas visitor arrivals - June 2007
Total overseas visitor arrivals into Canada declined by 11% in the month of June 2007, with visitors from
New Zealand up 5%. New Zealand visitors also rose by 4% in the second quarter of the year compared with the same three month period of 2006.

Cook Islands overseas visitor arrivals - June 2007
Total overseas visitor arrivals into the Cook Islands increased by 17% in the month of June 2007, with visitors from New Zealand up 27%. New Zealand visitors accounted for 59% of the Cook Islands arrival total in the year ended June and were recorded at 56,077 - up by 12% on the year ended June 2006.

Vietnam overseas visitor arrivals - September 2007
Total overseas visitor arrivals into Vietnam increased by 29% in the month of September 2007, with visitors from New Zealand up 21%. New Zealand visitors accounted for less than 0.5% of the Vietnam arrival total in the year ended September and were recorded at 18,318 - up 29% on the year ended September 2006 result.

Bali overseas visitor arrivals - June 2007
Total overseas visitor arrivals into Bali increased by 32% in the month of June 2007, with visitors from
New Zealand up 4%. New Zealand visitors accounted for less than 1% of the Bali arrival total in the year ended June and were recorded at 12,723 - down 14% on the year ended June 2006.

Philippines overseas visitor arrivals - August 2007
Total overseas visitor arrivals into the Philippines increased by 10% in the month of August 2007, with visitors from New Zealand up 14%. New Zealand visitors accounted for 0.3% of the Philippines arrival total in the year ended August and were recorded at 9,757 - up 5% on the year ended August 2006.

Japan overseas visitor arrivals - June 2007
Total overseas visitor arrivals into Japan increased by 13% in the month of June 2007, with visitors from
New Zealand up 14%. New Zealand visitors accounted for 0.4% of the Japan arrival total in the year ended June and were recorded at 32,737 - down 3% on the year ended June 2006.

Macau overseas visitor arrivals - August 2007
Total overseas visitor arrivals into Macau increased by 24% in the month of August 2007, with visitors from
New Zealand up 44%. New Zealand visitors accounted for just 0.1% of the Macau arrival total in the year ended August and were recorded at 13,636 - up 42% on the year ended August 2006.

Taiwan overseas visitor arrivals - August 2007
Total overseas visitor arrivals into Taiwan increased by 5% in the month of August 2007, with visitors from
New Zealand up 11%. New Zealand visitors accounted for 0.2% of the Taiwan arrival total in the year ended August 2007 and were recorded at 8,546 - up 3% on the year ended August2006.

Thailand overseas visitor arrivals - December 2006
Total overseas visitor arrivals into Thailand increased by 20% in the month of December 2006, with visitors from New Zealand up 13%. New Zealand visitors accounted for 0.6% of the Thailand arrival total in the year ended December and were recorded at 86,762 - up 12% on the calendar year 2005.

Korea overseas visitor arrivals - August 2007
Total overseas visitor arrivals into Korea rose by 4% in the month of August 2007, with visitors from New Zealand up 13%. New Zealand visitors accounted for just 0.3% of the Korea arrival total in the year ended August and were recorded at 19,966 - up 21% on the year ended August 2006.

Tahiti overseas visitor arrivals - March 2007
New Zealand visitor arrivals into Tahiti increased by 56% in the month of March 2007, for a first quarter gain of 40%. Visitors from New Zealand were recorded at 9,006 in the year ended march 2007 - up 19% on the year ended March 2006.

Fiji overseas visitor arrivals - 2005 to 2007 data not yet available
Due to changes made to the Fiji Immigration System processing of passenger arrival cards in 2004, overseas visitor arrival data has not been available on a monthly basis since October 2004, with results for the last three months of that year still provisional. Late last year, the Bureau of Statistics released provisional figures covering the calendar year 2004. In that year, total overseas visitors to Fiji increased by 17% over the year 2003. Visitors from New Zealand accounted for 21% of the Fiji arrival total in the calendar year 2004 and were recorded at 103,918 - up 39% on the calendar year 2003 result.

The best asmal estimate places total New Zealand visitor arrivals into Fiji at 112,430 for the 2006 calendar year - down 2.5% on the estimated 2005 arrival figure.

asmal database of latest available twelve month New Zealand visitor arrival results into selected overseas destinations

(Visitors arriving at overseas destinations are normally required by the Immigration authorities to complete an arrival form calling for some degree of information to be entered concerning their visit to that destination. After processing, this information comprises the basic source of data employed in the compilation of a destination's "visitor arrival" statistics. A visitor is generally defined to be any person visiting a country, other than that in which he or she is normally resident in, for a period of more than 24 hours).