International Travel and Migration: January 2017 Embargoed until 10:45am – 27 February 2017 Key facts In January 2017 compared with January 2016 visitor arrivals were up 37,600 to 381,100. The biggest changes were in arrivals from:    China (up 13,200) United States (up 5,200) Australia (up 5,200). Overseas trips by New Zealand residents were up 20,000 to 165,700. The biggest changes were in departures to:    Australia (up 3,600) China (up 2,300) United States (up 2,000). Permanent and long-term arrivals were up 1,000 to 14,500. Permanent and long-term departures were up 300 to 6,000. In January 2017, seasonally adjusted figures showed a net gain of 6,500 migrants. In the January 2017 year compared with the January 2016 year:      visitor arrivals numbered 3.54 million, up 364,600 (11 percent) New Zealand residents departed on 2.64 million trips overseas, up 214,400 (9 percent) permanent and long-term arrivals were 128,300, up 5,300 (4 percent) permanent and long-term departures were 57,000, down 100 (0 percent) net gain in migrants was 71,300. Liz MacPherson, Government Statistician ISSN 1179-0407 27 February 2017 Related links     Next release Past releases Data quality Related information Next release International Travel and Migration: February 2017 will be released on 21 March 2017. Subscribe to information releases, including this one, by completing the online subscription form. You can also subscribe to receive International Visitor Arrivals to New Zealand, and our weekly provisional international travel statistics. The release calendar lists all information releases by date of release. 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Unsubscribe to all if you change your mind. 4 Tables See the following Excel tables in the ‘Downloads’ box on this page. If you have problems viewing the files, see opening files and PDFs. 1. International travel and migration, by direction and passenger type, actual counts 2. International travel and migration, by direction and passenger type, seasonally adjusted and trend series 3. Overseas visitor arrivals, by country of last permanent residence 4. Overseas visitor arrivals, by travel purpose and country of last permanent residence 5. New Zealand-resident traveller departures, by country of main destination 6. Permanent and long-term arrivals, by country of last permanent residence 7. Permanent and long-term departures, by country of next permanent residence 8. Net permanent and long-term migration, by country of last/next permanent residence 9. Permanent and long-term migration, by citizenship, actual counts 10. Permanent and long-term migration, by citizenship, seasonally adjusted series 11. Permanent and long-term migration, by New Zealand region 12. Permanent and long-term arrivals, by visa type and country of last permanent residence Access more data on Infoshare Infoshare allows you to organise data in the way that best meets your needs. You can view the resulting tables onscreen or download them. Use Infoshare For this release, select the following categories from the Infoshare homepage: Subject category: Tourism Group: International Travel and Migration Next release International Travel and Migration: February 2017 will be released on 21 March 2017. 5