The FIFA Women’s World Cup boosted visitor arrivals and spending from the US market, according to accommodation and card spending data from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
International visitor spend in June 2023 was up 14% on the same month in pre-Covid 2019, according to the latest Tourism Electronic Card Transactions.
Domestic and international card spending in May 2023 both exceeded pre-Covid 2019 by more than 13%, according to the latest TECTS data.
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Both domestic and international visitor card spend in December 2022 exceeded their corresponding pre-Covid levels, according to the latest Tourism Electronic Card Transactions data.
Many RTO areas are already near their pre-Covid level of foreign spend, with one major market surpassing it.
For the first time since the pandemic began, international visitor card spend exceeds pre-Covid levels.
International visitor spending jumped to $182.8m in July 2022, just 9% down from the same month in pre-Covid 2019.
International visitor spend grew to $125.4m in the month of June 2022, up 22.7% on the same period last year, according to the latest Tourism Electronic Card Transaction figures.
International visitor spend has reached its highest level since the pandemic began thanks to the easing of New Zealand’s borders.
Domestic visitor spend between December 2021 and February 2022 fell to $3.07bn, down 5.6% for the previous summer months.
The region topped both annual and monthly visitor spend growth in January.
Regional tourism organisation areas around the country put in a mixed performance in December versus a year earlier.
Regional tourism organisation areas in the wider Otago region continued to put in a better performance for domestic spending in November 2021 versus the same month a year earlier.
Otago regional tourism organisation areas have topped October 2021 domestic spending growth versus the same month a year ago
Almost all regional tourism organisation areas around the country saw weaker monthly domestic spending in September 2021 than a year.
All regional tourism organisations around the country with the exception of Auckland experienced weaker domestic spending than a year ago, according to data from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
More areas saw visitor spend fall in July compared to the same month a year ago.
All regional tourism organisation areas around the country except for Mackenzie saw stronger domestic spending in June 2021 compared with the same month a year ago.
Australian spend quadrupled in Queenstown and more than doubled in Auckland and Christchurch from April to May.
All regional tourism organisations around the country saw stronger domestic spending in April 2021.
The north Canterbury region has enjoyed a surge in an already strong domestic market.
Smaller North Island regional centres proved resilient to the post-holiday domestic tourist exodus.
MBIE wants extra time to test data, ensure effects are practical
Visitor spend fell 11% to $1.25bn in January 2021 compared to the same month a year ago as the gap left by absent international tourists proved too large to plug for domestics.
Four RTOs took in more tourism dollars in 2020 compared with a year earlier despite an absence of international visitors for the most of the period, according to MBIE.
The Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates have been suspended because of the impact Covid-19 has had on the dataset’s methodology.