16th March 2021 Arrivals / Stats NZ
There’s been no surge of ex-pat Kiwis returning home due to the pandemic, says Stats NZ.
Overseas visitor arrivals for the year to December 2020 fell to 996,350, down 74.4% from the 3.89 million recorded in 2019.
Extra capacity sees December domestic travel up 7.5% on November but still down a third on 2019’s pre-Covid Christmas season.
Overseas visitor arrivals fell by 98.6%, or 367,000, to 5,100 in November 2020, compared with the same month a year earlier, says Stats NZ.
Total passenger volumes at Auckland Airport decreased by 69.7% to 539,527 in November 2020, compared to 1.8 million passengers for the same month last year.
Overseas visitor arrivals were up by 700 to 8,600 in September 2020, compared with August 2020, says Stats NZ.
Arrivals for the four weeks to 1 November totalled 8100, down from 265,640 for the corresponding period last year.
September overseas visitor arrivals were down 96.7% compared with the same month in 2019, according to Stats NZ’s latest international travel figures.
Overseas visitor arrivals were down 96.8% to 7800 in August 2020, compared with August 2019.
Overseas visitor arrivals were down 95% from 251,800 to 3800 in July 2020, compared with July 2019.
Travel restrictions imposed by the Government on passenger arrivals Into New Zealand show a dip in passenger numbers in July followed by a small rise in August.
The May 2024 recovery dates are later than the inbound tour operator association’s previous forecasts of March 2024.
There were 9,147 total arrivals through New Zealand borders in July 2020.
The total number of border crossings in the June 2020 quarter was 78,400 compared with 3.14 million for the same period in 2019.
People planning to come to New Zealand for a holiday will have their application to visit rejected, says Immigration New Zealand.
More than 50 international visitors say they came for a vacation in May.
June arrivals have more than doubled on May as the number of returning Kiwis grows, according to provisional figures from Stats NZ.
There were 2406 arrivals in New Zealand for the seven days to Tuesday 23 June, according to provisional figures from Stats NZ.
The number of people crossing NZ’s border fell to levels last seen in the late 1960s.
NZ might not see a return to pre-Covid visitor numbers until the end of March 2024, says the association.
There were no departures from New Zealand and only six arrivals on Tuesday 19 May, according to the latest provisional travel data from Stats NZ.
March 2020 saw the largest-ever drop in monthly visitor arrival numbers, ahead of the COVID-19 lockdown, according to Stats NZ.
Arrivals are likely to stay low post-pandemic because of weakness in source markets and Covid fear, says the bank.
Daily passenger arrivals at Auckland Airport fell from more than 12,000 to 40 in just a month, according to Biosecurity NZ.
Total visitor arrivals fell steeply in February 2020, down 11% to 372,700.
New Zealanders self-isolating on their return from overseas have been asked to consent to being contacted by text message, for the purposes of compliance checks.
Half of New Zealand’s major source markets saw declines in February with only India reporting any growth of note, according to the latest provisional arrivals data.
In a flashback to life before the Covid-19 coronavirus, Stats NZ has released January visitor numbers that show the earlier timing of Chinese New Year boosted the number of arrivals from China at the beginning of the year.
The coronavirus effect has shown up in latest figures from Stats NZ with a dramatic slump in Chinese arrivals from 20,000 in the last week of January to just 560 in the week ended February 23.
Arrivals from China dropped to 760 in the week ending 16 February, down 92.9% on the same corresponding week in 2019.
Arrivals from China plummeted to just 1430 in the week following the Govt’s travel ban.
Growth from Australia and the United States more than offset the falling Chinese market in 2019, according to Stats NZ.
It was the first time arrivals to New Zealand had passed the 7 million mark, said Biosecurity New Zealand.
The territories provide a potential focus for NZ tourism as it grapples with coronavirus.
Auckland International Airport passenger volumes eased by 1.5% to 1,779,262 in November 2019
Nine out of ten of NZ’s major source markets reported a fall in month-on-month visitor arrivals.
International visitor arrivals fell 3% to 476,350 in the four weeks to 29 December 2019, compared to the same period a year earlier.
International tourism growth slowed to 4% in 2019 – its slowest rate since 2016 – on the back of a cooling global economy, geopolitical tensions and Brexit uncertainty according to the World Tourism Organisation.
Total passenger volumes at Auckland Airport dropped by 1.1% in October. A highlight for the airport was growth in Taiwanese visitor arrivals increasing by 77.4% driven by the new direct service between Auckland-Taipei from Air New Zealand.
Growth has been dragged down by the downturn in visitors from Asia, says Stats NZ.
Keeping New Zealand top of mind amongst travellers considering a holiday remains one of Tourism New Zealand’s main challenges, industry heard yesterday at Tourism NZ’s Auckland roadshow.
Visitor arrival numbers to New Zealand for the four weeks to October 27 grew by 0.6% to 254,930 compared to the corresponding period last year, according to provisional travel data from Stats NZ.
International visitor arrivals increased to 261,770 in September 2019, up 1.4% on the same month last year, according to the latest travel figures from Stats NZ.
South Korea has been added to the list of eligible visitor countries able to take advantage of eGate access when arriving into the country.
The tourism industry is set to have a mixed performance in visitor arrivals this summer season, according to Tourism Export Council New Zealand.
Airlines adjusting their strategies to focus on yield over capacity is slowing growth, says Auckland Airport chief executive Adrian Littlewood.
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Passengers entering Queenstown Airport from overseas increased to 39,200 in August, up 7,100 (22%) on the same month last year.
Visitor arrival numbers to New Zealand for the four weeks to September 1 grew by 2% compared to the corresponding period last year, according to provisional travel data from Stats NZ.
A strong silver dollar economy contrasted with a weakening youth market in the latest Quarterly Tourism Report, with growth in international visitor arrivals skewed towards older age brackets in the year to June 2019.