New Zealand in Profile: 2010
| New Zealand lies around 1,600km from Australia’s eastern coast (a three-hour flight) and 9,000–12,000km from all Pacific Rim destinations (10- to 16-hour flight). Auckland has the busiest of the several airports servicing international travellers. Peak travel months are during summer, from December to February.
| |
2009 |
2004 |
Short-term travel |
(million) |
| Overseas visitor arrivals |
2.4 |
2.3 |
| NZ-resident departures |
1.9 |
1.5 | New Zealand’s top 10 visitor source countries for 2009 were the five listed below, followed by Germany, the Republic of Korea, Canada, Singapore, and Fiji.
Top five visitor source countries |
2009 |
2004 |
| Country of last permanent residence |
(thousand) |
| Australia |
1,008 |
782 |
| United Kingdom |
262 |
278 |
| United States of America |
197 |
213 |
| China, People’s Republic of |
108 |
74 |
| Japan |
88 |
161 | Note: All data refers to June years. |
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