About MBIE
We are the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). Everything we do is about Growing Aotearoa New Zealand for all.
We are the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). Everything we do is about Growing Aotearoa New Zealand for all.
Foreword from Carolyn Tremain, Secretary for Business, Innovation and Employment and Chief Executive.
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in the calculation of the International Visitor Survey (IVS).To meet IVS deadlines, Stats NZ supplied early provisional unpublished data, before data processing was complete, to MBIE for the December 2018 month.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.
Foreword from Hon Melissa Lee, Minister responsible for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
Stats NZ completed a review of the International Visitor Survey (IVS) in 2018.
Statements of responsibility from Hon Melissa Lee, Minister responsible for Minister responsible for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and Carolyn Tremain, Chief Executive for MBIE.
When the International Visitor Survey (IVS) started and how it has developed since, including a major update in 2013.
Our organisational strategy, Te Ara Amiorangi, informs the way we work. Te Ara refers to a pathway and Amiorangi to successfully navigating for the future to Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All.
The New Zealand Research Information System (NZRIS) will be a freely available national, online database containing information about the research, science and innovation sector.
We are the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), Hīkina Whakatutuki. Hīkina means to uplift and Whakatutuki means to move forward, to make successful.
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