There were 28,694 total border crossings in November 2021, with 4046 more departures than arrivals, according to provisional data from StatsNZ.
The value of building consents issued for hotels, motels and other short term accommodation for the month of October 2021 was $4m, a decline of 93.3% from the same month last year.
There were 20,772 total border crossings in October 2021, with 1,268 more arrivals than departures, according to provisional data from StatsNZ.
Electronic card transaction spending for November 2021 in the hospitality sector dropped 20.8% to $845m compared to the same month in 2020.
However, domestic tourism expenditure increased over that year to $24.6bn.
Tens of thousands of tourism workers were let go and hundreds of businesses closed in the first year of the pandemic, according to new data from Stats NZ.
Visitor arrivals from Australia coming for a holiday, VFR or business in July 2021 fell from the levels seen in June, while more Kiwis holidayed in the Cook Islands, according to Stats NZ.
Visitor arrivals from Australia coming for a holiday, VFR or business in June 2021 fell from the levels seen in May, according to Stats NZ.
Nearly 7,000 more people departed New Zealand than arrived in May 2021, says Stats NZ.
Air and space travel accounted for 60% of tourism-related emissions in 2019.
Drop in export of services due to the impact of closed border on international tourism and education.
More tourism experts have pushed out the prospects of a full recovery until 2024 at the earliest.
Accommodation spending for the year to March 2021 fell to $3.41bn, down 25.5% on the previous 12 month period, says Stats NZ.
There’s been no surge of ex-pat Kiwis returning home due to the pandemic, says Stats NZ.
Card sales for accommodation services were down $81m, or 29%, compared with January 2020.
A booming pre-Covid cruise market saw cruise ship expenditure drop by just 3.2% in the year ending June 2020, despite the season being cut short by the global coronavirus pandemic.
Spending on travel and tourism services suffered in August 2020 due to Covid-19 alert level 3 restrictions in Auckland and alert level 2 for the rest of New Zealand, says Stats NZ.
The value of building consents issued for hotels, motels and other short term accommodation for the month of July 2020 was $13m, a decline of 52.4% for the same month last year.
There were 11,300 fewer women working in tourism in June than the same month last year, says Stats NZ.
With the country in Covid-19 lockdown when the quarter began, fewer people who did not have a job were actively seeking work.
The value of building consents issued for hotels, motels and other short term accommodation for the month of June 2020 was $17m, a decline of 67.5% for the same month last year.
Falling hotel and motel prices due to the Covid-19 crisis contributed to the consumer price index declining 0.5% in the June 2020 quarter, says Stats NZ.
June arrivals have more than doubled on May as the number of returning Kiwis grows, according to provisional figures from Stats NZ.
It was the largest quarterly fall since the 2.4% decline in the March 1991 quarter.
The number of people crossing NZ’s border fell to levels last seen in the late 1960s.
New Zealand’s tourism-related greenhouse gas emissions jumped 16.3% in a decade.
Dairy receipts have overtaken tourism spending as New Zealand’s top goods export in the March 2020 year, says Stats NZ.
Stats NZ is preparing to launch the regular research series into the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions.
March 2020 saw the largest-ever drop in monthly visitor arrival numbers, ahead of the COVID-19 lockdown, according to Stats NZ.
In a flashback to life before the Covid-19 coronavirus, Stats NZ has released January visitor numbers that show the earlier timing of Chinese New Year boosted the number of arrivals from China at the beginning of the year.
Hospitality spend grew by 1.8% to $59m in the last quarter of 2019, according to StatsNZ.
