1. April 2024 highlights

• Total arrivals by air in April 2024 stood at 6,912.
• Residents arrival makes up 26% and visitor arrivals make  up 74% of the total arrivals by air.
• Holiday visitors represent 76% of all air arrivals.
• Visitors residing in Australia recorded the highest percent at 49% of all air arrivals.
• The average length of stay for visitors is 10 days.
• The average age of visitors is 42 Years.
• Day visitors stood at 13,513 in April 2024
• Total departures stood at 7,649 in April 2024. Residents represents 16% of all departure and visitor’s departure with 84%.

2. Overview

• The total number of international visitor arrivals stood at 18,645, with 5,128 arrivals by air, marking a 20% increase compared to the previous month. The increase was attributed to an increase in the number of air arrivals for holiday purposes by 17% when compared to the previous month.
• Vanuatu welcomed 5 cruise ships in April 2024 carrying a total of 13,513 day visitors, constituting 72% of the total visitors arriving by sea during that month.

3. Purpose of visit

Holiday visitors made up 76% of all international visitor arrivals to Vanuatu; followed by Other, Education and Sports at 11%, Business meetings conferences at 8%, Visiting Friends and relatives at 5% and stop-over visitors at less than 1%.

4. Country of usual residence (for visitors arriving by air)

Australian visitors accounted for 49% of all international visitors by air followed by Europe at 20%, New Zealand at 8%, Other Pacific Countries at 7%, China at 6%, North America and Other Countries at 5% each and Japan at 1%.

5. Average intended length of stay (for visitors arriving by air)

International visitors by air spent an average of 10 days in Vanuatu. Visitors to Port Vila spent an average of 9 days and Luganville with 11 days.

6. Average age of visitors

• The average age for visitors travelling by air is 42 years old.
• This represents 36% of all visitors arriving to Vanuatu within the age group of 30 - 49 years old and also 39% within the age group of 50+ years old.

Table Downloads

Table 1 - Summary of Overseas Migration.xlsx

Table 2 - Visitor Arrivals by Purpose of Visit.xlsx

Table 3 - Visitor Arrivals by Usual Country of Residence.xlsx

Table 4 - Overseas Arrivals of Residents by Nationality.xlsx

Table 5 - Visitors Arriving by Air Intended Length of Stay.xlsx

Table 6 - Visitors Arriving by Air Average Age.xlsx

Table 7 - Visitors travelling to Outer Islands, Vanuatu.xlsx

Table 8 - Visitors usual residence arrivals by purpose of visit.xlsx

Data Source and Revisions

All International arrival by air provided in this report is sourced from the passenger processing modules within ASYCUDA World system from the Department of Customs and the Migration Information Data Analysis System (MIDAS) from the department of immigration through International Organization for Migration (IOM). Cruise ship figures are also supplied by the Department of Customs through the Passenger processing module.

The Vanuatu Bureau of Statistics is releasing monthly provisional international visitor arrivals highlighted in the tables from January 2019 onwards. This will allow for anomalies and consistency checks with the Department of Customs and Inland Revenue (DCIR) before release of actual figures in Quarterly or Annual Statistical Indicator report.

Get the IVA April 2024 Report (PDF)

Next update (Monthly) release date

May 2024