New Zealanders take more overseas trips

Source: Xinhua| 2018-11-22 17:37:32|Editor: Liangyu
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WELLINGTON, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- More than 3 million New Zealand residents arrived back from overseas trips in the year ended October, up 175,100 year-on-year, the statistics department Stats NZ said on Thursday.

More and more Kiwis have been taking overseas trips in recent years, with the number growing almost as fast as that for visitor arrivals. Only 10 years ago there were fewer than 2 million trips a year, Stats NZ said.

In October, 283,600 visitors arrived in New Zealand, 13,100 more than in October 2017, led largely by Australia.

Visitor arrivals from Australia were up 9.7 percent when compared with October last year, it said.

"More arrivals from Australia was partly due to their school holidays beginning later in September this year than last year," population insights senior manager Brooke Theyers said in a statement.

"More holiday travel in October this year boosted our visitor numbers slightly from the same month in 2017," Theyers said.

More arrivals from Australia helped compensate for a lower number of visitors from Asia. There were 75,200 visitor arrivals from Asia in October, down 3.7 percent from the same month last year, Theyers said.

For recent years Asia has been the fastest growing source region for visitors to New Zealand, which makes October's fall rather unusual, the manager said, adding despite this fall, for the year ended October, arrivals from Asia were up 8.7 percent, for a total of 1.04 million visitors.

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