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Total and average international visitor spending growth starts to stall.

Total passenger numbers at Auckland Airport reached 21.1 million in the year to 30 June 2019, up 2.8% on the previous period, said the operator.

Passenger numbers, vessel spend, voyages and port calls all jump in the year to June 2019.

Auckland’s hoteliers are feeling the heat as ADR and RevPAR continue to drag 2018’s results.

Stats NZ said that the drop coincides with a fall in visitor arrivals from Asia.

A new dataset that represents the entire accommodation sector, provides detail around the source country or regions of visitors, and uses an automatic data feed are on the wish-list for the new commercial accommodation monitor, according to a government update.

Potential providers of the International Visitor Survey are expected to be interviewed this month after a closed was held in July.

The ministry is now testing a new dataset comprised of mobile phone data from the country’s three main networks.

Chinese and Asian visitor growth to New Zealand look set for further falls this year, says ASB Bank.

After a good start to the winter ski season for Queenstown’s hotel market in June, ADR and RevPAR dipped in July compared to last year although occupancy for the month is tracking above 2018’s results.

The All Blacks test against the Springboks in Wellington last Saturday boosted RevPAR in the capital’s hotel market by 39.8% for the week of 21-27 July 2019, according to STR.

Building consents for hotels, motels and other short-term accommodation grew to 473 for the year to June 2019, up 44.3% on the previous 12 months.

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June spending by visitors to Hawke’s Bay grew at double the national average, according to the latest Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates.

Tourism Bay of Plenty led month-on-month visitor spending growth for regional tourism organisations in June 2019, increasing 13% on the same month last year to reach $77m, according to the latest Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates. 

As if on cue following Wellington City Council flagging a falling share of the tourism market, the capital had a good week to Saturday 20 July, reporting RevPAR up 13.9% to $125.51, according to STR.

International passenger movements at Queenstown Airport increased to 43,892 in June, up 12% compared to the same month last year.

It is the second successive month of falls following a drop in May.

Arrivals from China at Christchurch Airport grew by 26.6% in May, according to the operator.

Christchurch came off its super rugby-fuelled run with a bit of a bump last week, reporting falls across occupancy, ADR and RevPAR for the week to Saturday 13 July.

Indonesia was a rare bright spot with month-on-month growth jumping by 90.5%

International guest nights fell to 970,000 in May, down 7.4% on the same month last year, according to Stats NZ’s latest accommodation survey.

Auckland continues to drag the national market down with another round of falls across occupancy, ADR and RevPAR for the week to Saturday 6 July.

In partnership with global accommodation benchmarking company STR, the Ticker publishes a weekly update tracking the performance of New Zealand’s hotel sector. 

It is the second consecutive month of double-digit falls in what was once touted as a hot market for NZ tourism.

Falls across all three metrics in the four main tourism centres last week drove the national performance down with only two positive spots.

Davis was unhappy with the lack of information over the ditching of the survey.

Budget secrecy prevented Stats NZ from informing industry of the ending of the Accommodation Survey, says the minister of statistics James Shaw.

An occupancy rate in Auckland of 71.6% for the week ending Saturday 15 June managed to partly claw back a four-week slide for the city’s hotel sector.

However, the Christchurch terror attack does not appear to have affected tourism, says the report.

Passenger movements at Queenstown Airport in May increased by 5% to 148,400, compared to the same month last year.

Australian passenger movements at Auckland Airport increased by 16.7% to 76,500 in April, compared to the same month last year.

International holiday arrival numbers in four of NZ’s top six visitor markets are falling

Milford Sound visitor numbers grew 2.14% to 882,296 in the year to March 2019, according to Milford Sound Tourism.

Domestic visitors on Easter holiday helped drive April commercial guest nights up 5.1% to 3.6 million compared to the same month last year, according to Stats NZ.

Queenstown’s hotel sector received a winter lift in occupancy, ADR and RevPar for the week ending Saturday 8 June, according to the latest data from STR.

International visitor arrivals to New Zealand in April 2019 grew by 8.3% to 307,409, compared to the same month last year, according to Stats NZ.

The ministry outlines the major gaps it wants filled in a new, improved accommodation survey.

Experimental government research that has unveiled the value of New Zealand’s peer-to-peer accommodation sector has been welcomed as “helpful”, but risks having limited value, says the TIA.

An experimental study puts a value on the activity dominated by providers like Airbnb, Bookabach and Bachcare.

The canning of the Accommodation Survey is another sign of the govt’s tourism data offering being reshaped, writes the Ticker’s Paul Yandall.

Tourism minister Kelvin Davis has called a meeting with industry stakeholders to address the future of crucial tourism data following the demise of the monthly commercial accommodation survey.

Wellington’s hotel sector reported a strong increase in RevPAR, a good bump in ADR and solid growth in occupancy for the week ending Saturday 1 June, according to the latest data from STR.

Could a new dataset using cellphone tracking help inform an enhanced accommodation survey?

Stats NZ is pulling its monthly survey of hotels, motels, backpackers and holiday parks.

NZ’s $558m business events sector showed an increase in events, delegates and delegate days for the year to March.

In its final Business Events Delegate Survey, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has uncovered an error in historical delegate number totals which meant local and domestic delegate numbers have been over-represented in past reports.

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Most of the country’s major markets reported falls or low growth over the March year.

UK, Australian visitors surge as Easter and school holidays push growth into double figures.