CORRECT NZ visitor arrivals climb in February as Chinese celebrate Year of the Snake

CORRECT NZ visitor arrivals climb in February as Chinese celebrate Year of the Snake
(Fixes incorrect figures for nationals' arrivals in 2nd graph) By Paul McBeth March 22 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand visitor arrivals climbed 9 percent last month as Chinese visitors more than doubled from a year ago amid celebrations of the Lunar New Year. Short-term visitor arrivals rose to a seasonally adjusted 223,410 in February from 204,950 a year earlier, according to Statistics New Zealand. The number of Chinese visitors rose 106 percent to 31,536, and arrivals from Hong Kong jumped 144 percent to 3,760. US visitors rose 8.9 percent...