Overseas visitor arrivals to New Zealand jumped 2531.6 year-on-year to 57,605 in May 2021, the highest number since March 2020, when the country's government introduced strict international travel restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19. Two-way quarantine-free travel opened with Australia on 19 April 2021 and with the Cook Islands on 17 May 2021. Since then there have been occasional travel restrictions affecting travel with selected Australian states and territories. The biggest changes in arrivals were from Australia (up 52,500), Cook Islands (up 400), the United Kingdom (up 300) and the United States (up 200). In the May 2021 year compared with the May 2020 year, the number of overseas visitor arrivals was 138,000, down by 3.0 million. source: Statistics New Zealand

Tourist Arrivals in New Zealand averaged 65786.19 from 1921 until 2021, reaching an all time high of 529255 in December of 2018 and a record low of 40 in April of 1942. This page provides the latest reported value for - New Zealand Tourist Arrivals - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. New Zealand Tourist Arrivals - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on July of 2021.

Tourist Arrivals in New Zealand is expected to be 45000.00 by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Tourist Arrivals in New Zealand to stand at 280000.00 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the New Zealand Tourist Arrivals is projected to trend around 250000.00 in 2022 and 295000.00 in 2023, according to our econometric models.

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New Zealand Tourist Arrivals

Actual Previous Highest Lowest Dates Unit Frequency
57605.00 31931.00 529255.00 40.00 1921 - 2021 Monthly
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Calendar GMT Actual Previous Consensus TEForecast
2021-04-13 10:45 PM Feb -98.6% -98.7% -98%
2021-05-16 10:45 PM Mar -97.4% -98.6% -97%
2021-06-13 10:45 PM Apr 1755.4% -97.4% 220%
2021-07-13 10:45 PM May 2531.6% 1755.4% 1500%
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New Zealand Overseas Visitor Arrivals Jump in May
Overseas visitor arrivals to New Zealand jumped 2531.6 year-on-year to 57,605 in May 2021, the highest number since March 2020, when the country's government introduced strict international travel restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19. Two-way quarantine-free travel opened with Australia on 19 April 2021 and with the Cook Islands on 17 May 2021. Since then there have been occasional travel restrictions affecting travel with selected Australian states and territories. The biggest changes in arrivals were from Australia (up 52,500), Cook Islands (up 400), the United Kingdom (up 300) and the United States (up 200). In the May 2021 year compared with the May 2020 year, the number of overseas visitor arrivals was 138,000, down by 3.0 million.
2021-07-13
New Zealand Tourist Arrivals Surge in April
Overseas visitor arrivals to New Zealand surged 1755.4% year-on-year to 31,931 in April of 2021, the highest number since March 2020. Two-way quarantine-free travel opened with Australia on 19 April 2021 and with the Cook Islands on 17 May 2021. The biggest changes were in arrivals from Australia (up 27,100), Cook Islands (up 600), the United States (up 300) and the United Kingdom (up 200). Overseas visitor arrivals increased by 27,300 in April 2021 compared with March 2021, which was 4,600.
2021-06-13
New Zealand March Tourist Arrivals Slump 97.4%
Overseas visitor arrivals in New Zealand tumbled by 170,882 or 97.4 percent year-on-year to 4,639 in March of 2021 as the country remained under border restrictions to protect New Zealanders from the ongoing coronavirus crisis. Visitors plunged mainly from Australia (-98.3 percent), the US (-98.4 percent) and UK (-96.8 percent). Arrivals for the year ended March of 2021 were 52,690, down 3.60 million from the corresponding period of 2020.
2021-05-16
New Zealand Tourist Arrivals Plunge 99%
Overseas visitor arrivals in New Zealand dropped by 367,400 or 98.6 percent year-on-year to 5,300 in February of 2021 as the country remained under border restrictions to protect New Zealanders from the ongoing coronavirus crisis. Visitors declined mainly from Australia (-99.2 percent), the US (-99.1 percent) and Germany (-99.6 percent). Arrivals for the year ended February of 2021 were 223,572, down 3.63 million from the corresponding period of 2020.
2021-04-13

New Zealand Tourist Arrivals
In New Zealand, visitor arrivals measure the total number of overseas visitors which intended length of stay is less than 12 months.