Introduction
New Zealand residents have been travelling overseas in increasing numbers over the last decade. Short-term departures grew from 1.182 million in the year ended June 1999 to 1.977 million in the year ended June 2008. Almost half of these trips (963,600) were to Australia.
Departures to countries in Oceania (other than Australia) almost doubled, from 130,600 in the June 1999 year to 249,300 in the June 2008 year. In 2008, most of these trips (97 percent) were to the Pacific island countries of Fiji, the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island and French Polynesia. This article examines the characteristics of New Zealand travellers departing to these destinations. All analyses in this article use June year data unless otherwise stated.
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