Book early for April holidays - NZ tourism and migration at record high123RF.COM Holidaymakers are looking for less busy times to book. Annual net migration, which is more closely watched by economists, stood at 71,900 – the same level recorded in March. Almost one in five migrants over the past year were students, Statistics NZ senior manager Peter Dolan said. Strong net migration would continue to support overall economic growth, even though migration was likely to soften over time, it said. Previous forecasts that net migration would peak at about the middle of last year proved incorrect.

Source: Stuff May 19, 2017 00:26 UTC