Freedom camping changes
Law changes relating to the Self-contained Motor Vehicles Legislation Act and its Regulations are complete. The final change was made in early 2025 with the transitional period for private vehicles extended to 7 June 2026.
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Migrant Employment Data
The Migrant Employment Data (MED) combines Immigration New Zealand’s visa data with Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax data to provide measures of how many people are engaged in the labour market each month, by industry, visa type, geographic area, and demographic characteristics.
Major upgrade for tennis arena roof to support its long-term future
The Government has announced a $5 million investment in a new Centre Court roof for Auckland’s Manuka Doctor Arena, as part of its work to maintain events and tourism infrastructure.
Data release calendar
This page identifies the upcoming scheduled tourism data releases.
Regional Events Promotion Fund
The Regional Events Promotion Fund (REPF) provides $5 million over 2 years to support the promotion of regional events to the domestic market. The fund is contestable and aims to encourage regional dispersal and increase visitor spend in the regions with an additional focus on encouraging seasonal dispersal by promoting events outside of the peak summer season.
Regional Tourism Boost Fund (Round 1)
The Regional Tourism Boost Fund (Round 1) was a contestable fund which provided $3 million to support regions to attract more international visitors and encourage their dispersal around the country.
First wave of events funding
The Government has confirmed the first wave of event funding under Events Boost Fund and Event Attraction Package, supporting a range of music, sports, arts and cultural events starting in 2026.
Tourism Boost package
The 2025 Tourism Boost package was developed by the Government in partnership with the tourism industry. It aims to support immediate growth in visitor numbers, drive export activity and deliver economic growth in New Zealand.
Tourism and Hospitality
The Minister for Tourism and Hospitality is proactively releasing the titles of documents received from MBIE.
June 2019 revisions to the IVS
Stats NZ publishes International Travel statistics which are used in the calculation of the International Visitor Survey (IVS).To meet IVS deadlines, Stats NZ supplied early provisional unpublished data, before data processing was complete, to MBIE for the December 2018 month. MBIE have now obtained the final data published by Stats NZ and have revised the IVS spend figures for the year ended December 2018 and the year ended March 2019.