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Matt Doocey: Tourism Minister on the number of international visitors in New Zealand and Australia in March

Published: May 16, 2024, 10:01 p.m.

Australia is far outstripping New Zealand on the tourism front.\xa0

Data from Stats NZ shows that New Zealand had just over 340,000 visitors in March this year, up 74,200 compared to last year.\xa0

In comparison, Australia had more than 760,000, a 24.1% increase from March last year.\xa0

Tourism Minister Matt Doocey told Mike Hosking that we\u2019re actually tracking pretty well when you look at the figures for the year ending March 2024.\xa0

He said that we\u2019re sitting at about 82% of pre-Covid numbers, which is roughly the same as Australia, and in line with the global rate of 85%.\xa0

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