1. June 2024 highlights

• Total arrivals by air in June 2024 stood at 3,823.
• Residents arrival makes up 49% and visitor arrivals make up 51% of the total arrivals by air.
• Holiday visitors represent 70% of all air arrivals.
• Visitors residing in Australia recorded the highest percent at 56% of all air arrivals.
• The average length of stay for visitors is 7 days.
• The average age of visitors is 40 Years.
• Day visitors stood at 12,020 in June 2024.
• Total departures stood at 3,102 in June 2024. Residents represents 31% of all departure and visitor’s departure with 69%. 

2. Overview

• The total number of international visitor arrivals stood at 14,020. Visitors arrival by air stood at 1,963 marking a 28% decrease compared to the previous month. The decrease was attributed to a decrease in the number of air arrivals for holiday purposes by 29% when compared to the previous month.
• Vanuatu welcomed 5 cruise ships in June 2024 carrying a total of 12,020 day visitors, constituting 86% of the total visitors during that month.

3. Purpose of visit

Holiday visitors made up 70% of all international visitor arrivals to Vanuatu; followed by Other, Education and Sports at 12%, Business meetings conferences at 11%, Visiting Friends and relatives at 7% and stop-over visitors at less than 1%.

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

Australian visitors accounted for 56% of all international visitors by air followed by Europe and Other Pacific Countries at 9% each, New Zealand at 8%, North America at 7%, China at 6%, Other Countries at 4% and Japan at 1%.

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

International visitors by air spent an average of 7 days in Vanuatu. Visitors to Port Vila spent an average of 11 days and Luganville with 2 days.

6. Average age of visitors

• The average age for visitors travelling by air is 40 years old.
• This represents 33% of all visitors arriving to Vanuatu within the age group of 30 - 49 years old and also 44% within the age group of 50+ years old.

Table Downloads

Table 1 - Summary of Overseas Migration

Table 2 - Visitor Arrivals by Purpose of Visit

Table 3 - Visitor Arrivals by Usual Country of Residence

Table 4 - Overseas Arrivals of Residents by Nationality

Table 5 - Visitors Arriving by Air Intended Length of Stay

Table 6 - Visitors Arriving by Air Average Age

Table 7 - Visitors travelling to Outer Islands, Vanuatu

Table 8 - Visitors usual residence arrivals by purpose of visit

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) and Immigration Department before release of actual figures in Quarterly or Annual Statistical Indicator report.

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Next update (Monthly) release date

July 2024