1. July 2024 highlights

• Total arrivals by air in June 2024 stood at 6,459.
• Residents arrival makes up 34% and visitor arrivals make up 66% of the total arrivals by air.
• Holiday visitors represent 77% of all air arrivals.
• Visitors residing in Australia recorded the highest percent at 63% of all air arrivals.
• The average length of stay for visitors is 9 days.
• The average age of visitors is 48 Years.
• Day visitors stood at 12,816 in June 2024.
• Total departures stood at 6,211 in July 2024. Residents represents 24% of all departure and visitor’s departure with 76%. 

2. Overview

• The total number of international visitor arrivals stood at 26,107. Visitor arrival by air stood at 4,291which is an increase of 2,328 visitors compared to the previous month. The increase was attributedto an increase in the number of air arrivals for holiday purposes by 1,953 when compared to theprevious month.
• Vanuatu welcomed 7 cruise ships in July 2024 carrying a total of 21,816 day visitors, constituting 84% of the total visitors during that month.

3. Purpose of visit

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

Australian visitors accounted for 63% of all international visitors by air followed by New Zealandat 12%, Europe at 7%, North America at 6%, Other Pacific Countries at 5%, China at 4%, OtherCountries at 2%, Japan at 1% and New Caledonia at less than 1%.

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

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

6. Average age of visitors

• The average age for visitors travelling by air is 48 years old.
• This represents 31% 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

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 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

August 2024