International Travel and Migration: June 2011

In June 2011 compared with June 2010:

• Visitor arrivals (131,300) were down 10 percent.
  
• More visitors arrived from China (up 1,200), but fewer arrived from Australia (down 11,400), the United Kingdom, and Korea (each down 1,400).
  
• New Zealand residents departed on 192,400 overseas trips, down 3 percent.
  
• New Zealand residents departed on more trips to Thailand (up 1,500) and the Cook Islands (up 1,100), but fewer trips to Australia (down 3,800), the United Kingdom (down 1,800), and the United States (down 1,100).
  

In June 2011:

• Seasonally adjusted permanent and long-term departures exceeded arrivals by 300.