The bar chart compares the percentage of tourists using different transport modes in New Zealand in 2004. Overall, it is clearly evident that tourists from Britain, Germany, and Australia mostly used coaches as the main means of transportation on their journeys, Koreans chose cars, whereas Japanese tourists favored air transport. Notably, ferries were used the least regardless of the nationality of tourists.
Visitors from Britain, Germany, and Australia used coaches the most, with the proportion of British tourists who used coaches standing at nearly 60%, which was 20 percentage points higher than that of air transport (40%), almost twice as much as cars (28%), and three times as much as ferries (20%). As for German tourists, the figure for coaches accounted for 55%, which was 15 percentage points higher than that for air transport (40%), but was equal to the combined figures for cars (35%) and ferries (20%). Meanwhile, Australian holidaymakers showed noticeably higher preferences for coach compared to other modes, with 45%, which was nearly twice as much as that for air transport (22%), and considerably higher than that for cars (20%), and ferries (10%).
Conversely, cars and air transport were more popular among Japanese and Korean visitors. The figure for aircraft stood at 50% among Japanese travelers, which was slightly higher than that for coach (47%), and significantly higher than for cars (20%), and ferries (10%). Koreans, on the other hand, preferred cars at 50%, which was ten percentage points higher than air transport (40%), and 15 percentage points higher than coaches (35%). The figure for ferries lagged behind at 9%.