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New Zealand’s strongest hotel market during the pandemic has returned to its 2022 occupancy high, touching 72% on average last week, according to STR.

The desire to travel to New Zealand remains strong in ‘active considerers’ with airfares and Covid disruption the top concerns for overseas markets, according to a Tourism New Zealand analysis.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has launched a new data resource tracking tourism recovery from Covid-19.

BEIA’s MEETINGS 2022 event at Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre has given the city’s hotel market a lift.

A good recovery is under way in Queenstown with hotel occupancy closing in on 50% and expected to surpass it with the start of the ski season this week.

More than a quarter-of-a-million border crossings in April 2022 was the highest for a month since travel restrictions were introduced in March 2020, says Stats NZ.

New rooms and returning managed isolation facilities look to be the story of that market for the months ahead.

Average weekly occupancy across NZ is exactly the same as it was in late April with hundreds of new rooms opening as visitor numbers grow.

Travel exports, or international visitor spend, was just over $1bn in the March 2022 quarter, about the same as the previous corresponding period, according to Stats NZ.

The value of hotel, motel and other short-term accommodation consents dipped to $31m in April 2022, down from $32m for the same month last year.

Former TIA CEO Chris Roberts and AUT senior tourism lecturer Dr Keri-Anne Wikitera will co-chair the government’s new Tourism Data Co-governance Group.

Wellington remains the country’s best-performing hotel market in terms of occupancy with a consistently steady climb since the mid-March low, according to figures from STR.

Queenstown’s hotels appear to have bottomed out at around 30% occupancy following the boost from the April school and public holidays, according to figures from STR.

The Chinese are yet to return but arrivals from other countries are on the move.

Christchurch’s hotel market is closing in on 50% occupancy following its 2022 low of 33% recorded in mid-March, according to figures from STR.

Only one major hotel market managed to top 50% occupancy across the 12 months to March 2022.

People’s plans to spend more on international travel over the next 3-6 months appear particularly strong.

The country’s two major gateways – Auckland and Christchurch – shrugged off the ending of the April school holidays last week with average weekly occupancy continuing to rise, according to figures from STR.

More than 900,000 adults are planning an overseas holiday in the next 12 months, equating to 23% of the adult population, according to Horizon Research data.

The country’s hotel sector scored a much-needed boost from the Easter and Anzac Day long weekends and the first week of the April school holidays, according to figures from STR.

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A new tourism resource from the government aims to help people track the recovery of the sector.

Queenstown’s hotels saw a much needed Easter boost as the resort hoped to benefit from a combination of school and public holidays in the second half of April.

A steady rise sees Wellington top the country’s hotel markets in terms of occupancy last week, according to figures from STR.

Arrivals and departures to and from New Zealand have spiked in March 2022, according to provisional data from Stats NZ.

A lack of demand from business and leisure travellers has led to the worst March results for hoteliers since the pandemic began.

A slow but discernable rise in occupancy across New Zealand has been underway for most of the past month, according to figures from STR.

Domestic visitor spend between December 2021 and February 2022 fell to $3.07bn, down 5.6% for the previous summer months.

Spending in the hospitality sector increased steadily during March reaching almost $700m, according to new data by Worldline.

The resort’s struggling hotel market appears to have pulled itself off its 2022 occupancy low, according to figures from STR.

Air New Zealand transported 481,000 passengers in February 2022, down 23% from the 624,000 it carried during February 2021.

ADR last week dipped below 2021 levels for the first time this year as hoteliers attempt to entice customers.

It continues a dismal slide for the country’s major hotel markets since the Omicron outbreak started.

Returning managed isolation facilities and new accommodation in Auckland will add more than 62% of rooms to the city’s hotel market.

Wellington was the only major hotel market to show any growth in occupancy last week, compared to the same period last year, according to figures from STR.

The region topped both annual and monthly visitor spend growth in January.

Guest nights nationwide for the month of January 2022 fell to 3.5 million, down 10% on the same month last year, according to the latest Accommodation Data Programme figures.

Average weekly occupancy across New Zealand fell to its lowest level last week since December last year, according to figures from STR.

The value of building consents issued for hotels, motels and other short term accommodation for the month of January was $17m, a decline of ??% from the same month last year.

Overall traveller numbers will reach 4 billion in 2024, exceeding pre-Covid levels at 103% of the 2019 total.

Average weekly occupancy at Queenstown hotels remained subdued in the week ending Saturday 19 February as hospitality closures cast a pall over the tourist town following a number of Covid-19 exposure events. 

Average weekly occupancy at Auckland hotels fell to the lowest level since the Christmas period and only just above that seen during the Delta lockdown for the week ending Saturday 12 February, according to STR.

Occupancy rates in December at accommodation types nationwide improved to 34.2% for the month continuing an uptrend that started last month, according to Accommodation Data Programme (ADP) results.

The number of people crossing New Zealand’s border in 2021 was the lowest for a calendar year since 1971.

Average weekly occupancy at Wellington hotels fell to the lowest level since the Christmas period for the week ending Saturday 5 February, according to STR. 

People have gone into their shells “like never before during the pandemic” with a possible wave of business failures to come.

Average weekly occupancy at Christchurch reached their highest levels since mid-August in the week ending Saturday 29 January, according to STR. 

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Average weekly occupancy at Auckland hotels broke above the 50% mark for the first time since the Delta lockdown began mid-August.

Economic confidence in the Otago region jumped 10 points over the December quarter, according to the latest Westpac McDermott Miller Regional Economic Confidence report.