Immigration New Zealand (INZ) welcomes the recommendations of the independent review of its processes and procedures relating to the detention of asylum seekers.

New Zealand’s cycle trails and cycle tourism are more popular than ever.

The Maritime Security Strategy: Te Kaitiakitanga o Tangaroa ensures New Zealand has a maritime security sector that is able to continue to secure New Zealand’s marine economic, cultural and environmental interests for future generations.

The Tourism Infrastructure Fund is now open for applications from councils to address infrastructure needs related to tourism.

The Government has announced its plans to gradually reopen New Zealand’s border this year.

Our latest charts showing annual tourism spend — grouped by territorial authority (TA), regional tourism organisation (RTO), country of origin and product category.

The Regional Tourism Estimates 2006–2011 drew data from the International Visitors Survey, Domestic Travel Survey and electronic transactions data. They are presented here for historical purposes only.

The Government has announced today a new border class exception for the technology sector, to support this rapidly growing industry to bring in overseas talent where it is most needed.

The Regional Tourism Estimates (RTEs) provided regional stakeholders with absolute dollar estimates of tourism expenditure at a detailed regional level — that is, by regional council, territorial authority, visitors’ country of origin and industry. They were superseded by the Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates (MRTEs) in 2016.

The Tourism Data Domain Plan sets out the main priorities for tourism statistics, based on agreement by industry and government stakeholders.