31st January 2018 IVS / MBIE / Statistics NZMBIE has come under fire from tourism leaders after wiping $910m off international tourist spending.
30th January 2018 IVS / MBIE / Statistics NZThe terms of reference for Stats NZ’s review of MBIE’s International Visitor Survey have been released.
15th December 2017 IVS / MBIE / Statistics NZ / TSAAn economist with detailed knowledge of MBIE’s tourism data collection has come out criticising it as “next to useless” after this week’s Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) showed a fall in international tourism spend.
29th September 2017 IVS / MBIE / Statistics NZMBIE is to have its top tourism data collection, the Tier 1 International Visitor Survey, reviewed by Stats NZ because of concerns over its accuracy.
30th August 2017 IVS / MBIE / Statistics NZStats NZ has begun an investigation into the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s International Visitor Survey
13th April 2017 Statistics NZNational guest nights this February were relatively flat, down 0.4 percent on February 2016, according to Statistics NZ.
22nd March 2017 Statistics NZTourists continued to flock to New Zealand in record numbers in the year to February.
21st March 2017 Statistics NZInternational guest nights hit a record 2m in January, up 6.9% on the same month last year.
7th March 2017 Statistics NZNorth Island guest nights drove growth of 3.4% in accommodation in December 2016 compared to the same period last year, according to Statistics NZ.
17th February 2017 Statistics NZInternational visitors continued to boost guest-night numbers, particularly for motels, in November, Statistics NZ said yesterday.
