A three-week holiday in New Zealand had such an impact on one Chilean family they returned to live here.
And yesterday Cesar Alarcon, his wife Maria Godoy and 18-year-old daughter Consuelo Alarcon officially became Kiwis.
They were joined by migrants from Chile, Philippines, France, Korea, Fiji, Zimbabwe, Britain, Ireland, India, Thailand and South Africa at a citizenship ceremony at Rotorua Lakes Council.
Forestry researcher, Mr Alarcon, was so taken with New Zealand after a month working in Rotorua in 1999 he asked his wife to join him for a holiday. The pair travelled around the South Island in a campervan before returning to visit friends in Rotorua.
Mrs Godoy said she thought Rotorua was "just lovely".