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New Zealand visitor arrivals surge to new May record
Visitor arrivals in May 2013 were up 9 percent from May 2012, Statistics New Zealand said today. "The latest visitor number was easily the highest ever for a May month," population statistics manager Andrea Blackburn said. "Arrival figures jumped to 153,000, after sitting at around 141,000 for the last six May months." The increase in May 2013 was mainly due to more visitors from Australia (up 8,000) and China (up 3,900). In the year ended May 2013, there were 2.628 million visitors, up less than 1 percent from the previous year. This year's increase was despite visitor numbers in the May 2012 year being boosted ... (full story)