The graph below shows the average daily spend of three categories of international visitors to New Zealand from 1997 to 2017.

The line chart compares the average daily spending of international visitors to New Zealand for three purposes between 1997 and 2007.

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expenditures on holidays & vocation and visiting friends or relatives witnessed an increase over the period shown,

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there was a significant decline in money spent on business. In 1997, approximately $120 was spent on paying a visit to friends or relatives,

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the figure was more than doubled in the outgoings of business, at $260, and the cost for holidaymakers was $190 every day. From

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on, the expenditures in all categories showed an increase, in which holidaymakers and visitors for friends and relatives spent $270 and $220 in 2003, reaching the peak. With some fluctuations, the daily spending for businessmen peaked at $330 in 2004.

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, the year 2005 saw a considerable decrease in the cost spent by businessmen, reducing by $150, after which it plummeted to $145 in 2015. The trend was almost the same for the rest of the purposes at the same time.

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the average spending from business people jumped to $260 a year later, it fell back to $200 in 2017 on a daily basis, which was outnumbered by the cost from people making holiday, at $240, but was higher than that of visiting travellers, at $140.