IVS

International visitors spent $538m on accommodation in the June 2023 quarter – the single largest category spend.

International visitors spent $3.2bn billion in New Zealand in the March 2023 quarter, up from $1.8bn in the December quarter.

International visitor spend is the country’s third highest export for the quarter, says MBIE.

Foreign visitor spending reached $1.03bn for the September 2022 quarter, according to the International Visitor Survey.

The 15-minute survey, conducted by Kantar Public on behalf of MBIE, aims to understand what visitors think about New Zealand in order to improve the visitor experience.

The revised questionnaire includes a stronger focus on sustainability, new information needs due to COVID-19, and meeting new expenditure data requirements by Stats NZ.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment plans to restart the International Visitor Survey in July 2022.

The International Visitors Survey is expected to restart again in July this year, says the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

Stats NZ says it is moving away from using electronic card transaction data to estimate foreign visitor expenditure.

Visitor spend for the September 2020 quarter fell to $1.47bn, down from $2.88bn for the same period last year, according to new government data.

Fresh Info and Kantar both won tenders for government data contracts in the last year.

International visitors from the United States have once again led spending growth, with a 29% leap in the year ended December 2019, according to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

International visitors from the United States led spending growth in the year to September 2019, jumping 15% on the previous 12 months, according to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

Industry is pinning its hopes on a new International Visitor Survey contract to help overcome problems that have plagued one of the government’s most important tourism datasets.

Total and average international visitor spending growth starts to stall.

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

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

International visitor spend grew to $11.16bn last year despite falling or flat growth from most of NZ’s major markets.

MBIE packages industry insight in first Quarterly Tourism Report.

Spending in the year to June was driven by growth in visitor arrivals from China and the US, according to MBIE’s IVS.

MBIE has been negligent in the management of its top tourism collection and we may never know the extent of the damage, writes the Ticker’s Paul Yandall.

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A Stats NZ review of MBIE’s premier tourism dataset has recommended a raft of improvements.

A “damning review” of the International Visitor Survey has “called the credibility of official government visitor statistics into question” according to the Tourism Industry Aotearoa.

A report into the accuracy of the International Visitor Survey has been delayed because of the time being taken to test the dataset.

International spending neared a record $11bn in the year to March thanks to a rise in visitor numbers and increased expenditure by travellers from the US and China.

The leader of Stats NZ’s review of the International Visitor Survey has returned to the UK as improvements to the beleaguered dataset are already being implemented.

Stats NZ has updated stakeholders on the progress being made in its review of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s beleaguered International Visitor Survey.

The growth was driven by a 6.7% increase in visitors to New Zealand to a record 3.73 million last year with the US market performing strongly in terms of arrivals and spending.

One of the UK’s top statisticians has been tasked with reviewing the Ministry of Business Innovation & Employment’s beleaguered International Visitor Survey.

MBIE has come under fire from tourism leaders after wiping $910m off international tourist spending.

The terms of reference for Stats NZ’s review of MBIE’s International Visitor Survey have been released.

An economist with detailed knowledge of MBIE’s tourism data collection has come out criticising it as “next to useless” after this week’s Tourism Satellite Account (TSA)  showed a fall in international tourism spend. 

What have been the drivers of the 0.9% drop in international tourism expenditure as reported in the TSA 2017? Here’s MBIE’s answer.

International tourist spending has dropped to $14.5bn in the year to March, down 0.9% compared to the same month last year, according to Stats NZ’s Tourism satellite account for 2017.   

Spending by international visitors in New Zealand was a record $10.4bn for the year to September 2017, according to MBIE.

The country’s premier tourism data collection, the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) has been delayed.

MBIE is to have its top tourism data collection, the Tier 1 International Visitor Survey, reviewed by Stats NZ because of concerns over its accuracy.

Stats NZ has begun an investigation into the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s International Visitor Survey

Spending by international visitors in New Zealand was $10.3 billion for the year ending June 2017, according to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).

Almost all international visitors rate New Zealand as a destination with 96% saying their trip met or exceeded expectations, according to MBIE.

MBIE has released a new user guide with the latest Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates and has tweaked its historical dataset for the collection.

One of the most important resources the tourism industry has is the data provided by government agencies but is MBIE living up to the task and how does it explain clear discrepancies between its own datasets?

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