Regions

| Reliance on tourism

Overview

This page displays measures around tourism spend in order to better understand how each New Zealand area is economically reliant on tourism.

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List of datasets used in this page: Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates | Tourism Electronic Card Transactions | Modelled Territorial Authority Gross Domestic Product | Business Events Data Programme

List of area levels covered in this page: Regional Council | Regional Tourism Organisation

Tourism expenditure as a proportion of regional GDP

This graph shows the proportion of regional GDP attributed to tourism expenditure in that region over time - a proxy for a region’s economic reliance on tourism.

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Domestic tourism expenditure

This graph shows the amount of tourism expenditure from domestic visitors.

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Note: Territorial Authority level data is only available at the annual level due to confidentiality reasons.

How to read this graph:

Each line of this graph represents a regional authority. The x-axis shows the months with available data, and the y-axis shows the domestic tourism expenditure.

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International tourism expenditure

This graph shows the amount of tourism expenditure from other (i.e. non- domestic) visitors.

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Note: Territorial Authority level data is only available at the annual level due to confidentiality reasons.

How to read this graph:

Each line of this graph represents a regional authority. The x-axis shows the months with available data, and the y-axis shows the international tourism expenditure.

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Proportion of spend per region

This graph shows the proportion of expenditure region, or the percentage of spend attributed to a specific Regional Council or RTO. The data come from the Tourism Electronic Card Transactions (TECTs), produced by MBIE as an interim replacement to the Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates (MRTEs).

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Each area of this graph represents a regional authority. The x-axis shows the months with available data, and the y-axis shows the proportion of expenditure.

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Growth in spend per region

This graph shows the growth of tourism expenditure for Regional Councils and RTOs in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Each line of this graph represents a regional authority. The x-axis shows the months with available data, and the y-axis shows the growth in tourism spend.

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Regional business event data

This graph shows which regions business events occur, or which regions business event delegates go for MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) events.

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Each bar on this graph represents the number of events, delegates or delegate days (days spent by delegates for a business event) split by each region. The measure shown can be adjusted using the grey button at the top of the chart.

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