We investigated the Regional Tourism Indicators data to determine the validity of using it to help answer questions about tourism expenditure at a regional level.

These 1-page regional summaries show the Regional Tourism Estimates (RTE) data for each regional tourism organisation (RTO).

We make the Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates (MRTEs) more accurate by updating them with spending data from Stats NZ's annual Tourism Satellite Account.

This section includes the Tourism Electronic Card Transactions (TECTs), Accommodation Data Programme (ADP), International Visitor Survey (IVS), Tourism Satellite Account (TSA), and data on international travel and cruise visitor spending in New Zealand.

The commentary below presents the national context for tourism in the year ending September 2019 (and for the September 2019 quarter where available). MBIE acknowledges that the outbreak of coronavirus creates some uncertainty looking ahead. This Quarterly Tourism Report provides a retrospective look at the performance of the sector, so the impacts of the outbreak are not included. Analysis of the impact of the outbreak will be included in future reports. Key findings are below:

The Business Events Delegate Survey collected expenditure and length of stay data from multi-day business event delegates through an online survey, from 2009 to 2019.

Regional Tourism Indicator (RTI) data is presented as indexes, and can be compared between years, however there are some limitations to its use.

The 2013 tourism report provides an in-depth look into how our tourism sector was performing. The report is 1 of 7 publications in the New Zealand Sectors Report Series.

International Tourism Forecasts for the 2017–2023 period.

In 2015, Stats NZ carried out a review of our suite of tourism statistics.