This commentary presents the national context for tourism in the year ending September 2019 (and for the September 2019 quarter where available). This Quarterly Tourism Report focusses on the recent performance of the sector. The data in this report does not include the impacts of the novel coronavirus. MBIE acknowledges that novel coronavirus is creating uncertainty for the tourism sector, and the Government is looking at ways to provide data in a timely manner and information on impacts as they emerge.

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Our latest Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates (MRTEs) — grouped by region and product category, such as accommodation, passenger transport and retail sales.

This page contains links to previous national and regional international tourism forecasts dating back to 2010.

This section contains the most recent editions of our set of ongoing migration monitoring reports.

We are consulting on proposals for changes to post-study work rights and the eligibility of student’s partners and their dependent children to work and study in New Zealand.

The Government is consulting on a proposal to introduce an Electronic Travel Authority facility for some groups of travellers. It is a new security and facilitation measure that, if it is introduced, will help to speed things up at the border.

The New Zealand Refugee Resettlement Strategy was developed and implemented in 2013 with the aim of improving outcomes for former refugees.

Submissions on this consultation are now closed.

The Domestic Travel Survey (DTS) was a survey of approximately 15,000 households per year from 1999 to 2012, used to estimate the characteristics of New Zealanders’ domestic tourism.