The bar chart compares the proportions of tourists from five countries – Britain, Germany, Japan, Korea and Australia – who used four different types of transport (air, coach, car and ferry) while visiting New Zealand in 2004.
Overall, coach travel was the most popular mode of transport among British, German and Australian tourists, whereas Japanese visitors showed a clear preference for air travel. By contrast, Korean tourists relied more heavily on cars than any other group. Ferry travel was consistently the least used form of transport across all nationalities.
In detail, approximately 58% of British tourists travelled by coach, compared with about 42% who used air and 28% who travelled by car. A similar pattern was observed among German visitors, 54% of whom chose coaches, while 43% travelled by air and 35% by car. Among Australians, coach use was also dominant at around 50%, double the proportion who travelled by air (25%).
In contrast, Japanese tourists were more likely to travel by air, with just over half (around 52%) choosing this option, compared with 48% who used coaches and only 22% who travelled by car. Korean visitors differed noticeably from the other groups: car travel was the most common mode for this nationality at approximately 47%, exceeding both air (42%) and coach (35%). Ferry transport, meanwhile, accounted for the smallest proportions in every country, ranging from roughly 7% among Koreans to about 20% among British and German tourists.