Travellers from New Zealand have topped the latest tally of visitors to Australia.
Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show that 33,900 more people visited Australia in July than in the same month last year, and the biggest increase was from New Zealand.
There were 112,300 arrivals from across the ditch in the month - a rise of 11,500, or 11.4 per cent, from July 2014 - accounting for 18.5 per cent of the total number of overseas visitors.
China, which has dominated trends in the past five years, was in second place with 81,600 visitors, a rise of 8,100 or 11.0 per cent.
Travellers from the Asian nation, which has more than doubled its flow of visitors to Australia over the past five years, made up 13.4 per cent of the 607,000 arrivals in July, up from just eight per cent five years ago.
WHERE VISITORS TO AUSTRALIA CAME FROM IN JULY - TOP 10
New Zealand: 112,300, +11,500 from previous July
China: 81,600, +8,100
United Kingdom: 57,000, +2,100
USA: 47,900, +6,000
Singapore: 31,400, -300
Malaysia: 27,300, -2,900
Japan: 26,700, -2,300
India: 19,300 +3,100
Hong Kong: 19,100, +2,900
South Korea: 17,100 +400
Other: 167,300, +5,300
Total: 607,000, +33,900
Source: ABS, seasonally adjusted.
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