Travel rebounds in January but fails to reach pre-COVID levels

International travel rebounded in January with 412,410 short-term arrivals compared with January last year.

Numbers still 43.6 per cent below pre-pandemic levels.

New Zealand, the UK and the US made up the majority of the visitors this holiday season.

China has the lowest rate of recovery for travel to Australia, sitting at just six per cent of its 2019 volume.