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Occupancy at Auckland hotels fell slightly in the week ending Saturday 12 June, with average weekly occupancy dipping to 57.6%, according to STR.

Drop in export of services due to the impact of closed border on international tourism and education.

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Occupancy at Queenstown hotels improved slightly in the week ending Saturday 5 June, with average weekly occupancy at 45.1%, according to STR.

Weekly average occupancy in city of sails remained above 60% for two straight weeks.

The value of building consents issued for hotels, motels and other short term accommodation in April 2021 was $32m, up 65.5% for the same month in 2020, according to Stats NZ.

Average weekly occupancy in Wellington has continued to climb hitting a 2021 high last week, according to STR.

Occupancy at Christchurch hotels was steady for the week ending Saturday 15 May, with weekly occupancy at 54.6%, according to STR.

Level 3 lockdown until 7 March hurt traffic.

The opening of the trans-Tasman bubble on 19 April 2021 has tipped the balance in favour of arrivals above departures, says Stats NZ.

Occupancy across New Zealand appears to have settled after a mid-April bump thanks probably to the opening of the trans-Tasman travel bubble, according to STR.

The value of building consents issued for hotels, motels and other short term accommodation in March 2021 was $27m, down 55% for the same month in 2020, according to Stats NZ.

Occupancy at Auckland hotels ticked up during the second half of the school holidays for the week ending Saturday 1 May, with weekly occupancy at 57.6%.

The resort’s hotels appeared to get a boost from the start of school holidays.

Auckland Airport passengers volumes fell to 463,070 in February 2021, local lockdown bites.

Queenstown’s hotels were able to stay steady during the second half of the Easter break, scoring an average weekly occupancy of 45.93% for the week to Saturday 10 April, according to figures from STR.

Queenstown hotels have been particularly battered in the last 12 months.

The major urban hotel markets took a hit last week as people headed out of the city for the long Easter weekend, according to figures from STR.

The value of building consents issued for hotels, motels and other short term accommodation in February 2021 was $57m, up 46% for the same month in 2020, according to Stats NZ.

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Hotel markets appeared to have recovered from Auckland’s latest lockdown with even Queenstown hitting its highest occupancy since early January, according to figures from STR.

Manawatū was the top performer for the month seeing occupancy rise to 60%.

The country’s hotel markets rallied last week following the ending of Auckland’s Covid-19 alert level 3 lockdown, according to figures from STR.

Hotel markets suffered sharp falls after Auckland went into its latest lockdown, according to figures from STR.

Auckland saw occupancy rebound last week from the city’s first Covid-19 alert level lockdown of the year, according to figures from STR.

The value of building consents issued for hotels, motels and other short term accommodation in January 2021 was $9m, down 25% for the same month in 2019, according to Stats NZ.

Spending on international sea and air transportation services has risen steadily from the Covid-affected low in the June 2020 quarter, says Stats NZ.

Wellington appeared to bear the brunt of last week’s snap Auckland lowdown with occupancy at the capital dropping sharply, according to figures from STR.

Spending on accommodation in the December 2020 quarter fell to $967.91m, down 18% compared to the corresponding period a year earlier.

Hotels in regional New Zealand have done well over the recent holiday period while others in major centres experience “unsustainable revenue”, Horwath HTL says.

Queenstown managed to crawl off its 2021 low last week, according to figures from STR. 

Overseas visitor arrivals for the year to December 2020 fell to 996,350, down 74.4% from the 3.89 million recorded in 2019.

A Christmas bump saw Hawke’s Bay regional tourism organisation area top occupancy across all accommodation types in December, knocking Wellington from the top of the table.

Average weekly occupancy across most of the country’s hotel markets took a dip last week leading into the long Waitangi weekend, according to figures from STR.

The number of passengers travelling through Queenstown Airport decreased by 48% to 123,553 in January 2021, compared with the same month in 2020.

Wellington has made a solid start to 2021 with average weekly occupancy jumping from 43% in mid-January to 55% by the end of the month, according to figures from STR.

The value of building consents issued for hotels, motels and other short term accommodation in December 2020 was $14m, a drop from 81.5% for the same month in 2019, according to Stats NZ.

Air New Zealand passenger numbers fell to around 881,000 in December 2020, down 51.7% compared to the same month a year earlier.

Average weekly occupancy ticked up last week in the country’s major hotel markets, with growth led by Christchurch, according to figures from STR.

Auckland performed the best of the country’s major hotel markets over the Christmas and New Year’s break, according to figures from STR.

The latest results not only highlight Queenstown’s dependence on international travellers but also a widening gap in domestic air travel to the resort over the summer.

The value of building consents issued for hotels, motels and other short term accommodation in November 2020 was $125m.

Air New Zealand passenger numbers fell to around 881,000 in December 2020, down 51.7% compared to the same month a year earlier.

Overall average weekly occupancy across all of New Zealand has barely budged since the recovery from Auckland’s second lockdown at the end of August, according to figures from STR.

Average weekly occupancy in Queenstown has slid to its lowest point since the recovery from Auckland’s second Covid-19 alert level lockdown, according to figures from STR.

Auckland enjoyed the best October in the Asia Pacific in terms of RevPAR, according to CBRE, and its results appeared to be holding up but there was still no sign of a summer bump for the city, according to figures from STR.

The value of building consents issued for hotels, motels and other short term accommodation for October 2020 was $66m, down 4.5% on the same month last year, according to Stats NZ.

Spending by overseas visitors and students within New Zealand fell by half to $1.5bn in the September 2020 quarter, compared with the same period last year, says Stats NZ.

Arrivals for the four weeks to 1 November totalled 8100, down from 265,640 for the corresponding period last year.