Chinese holidaymakers have pushed up the number of visitor arrivals to our shores.

Numbers were up eight percent last month, on the same time last year, with the biggest increase coming from China.

There were 8,800 more visitors from the Asian country - up almost 50 percent on November 2013.

In the past year, 2.84 million visitors have come to New Zealand - a five percent increase on the previous year.

The biggest increases were from Australia, China and the United States.