Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis has welcomed new forecasts showing international visitor spending is expected to grow 40 per cent to $14.8 billion a year by 2024.
Many New Zealand hotel markets are outperforming their Australian counterparts as demand for rooms continues to outstrip supply with Queenstown, Auckland and Rotorua among Australasia's top markets.
The summer of 2017/18 has proven to be another record breaking season for the New Zealand tourism sector with record visitor numbers driving exceptional hotel performance metrics across the majority of its key markets.
Highest-ever pedestrian numbers recorded in Queenstown CBD
More people are pounding the pavements in central Queenstown than ever before, with the pedestrian count up 18 per cent on last year, 10 per cent on prior record.
A survey of hundreds of travellers around the globe by The Rees Hotel Queenstown, New Zealand has shown that hotels remain by far still the tried and true favourite for both leisure and business guests.
The New Zealand International Convention Centre (NZICC) will host the Asia-Pacific Association of International Education (APAIE) Conference in 2021, which is expected to attract more than 1,700 delegates and 200 exhibitors, who will stay a total of 8,700 visitor nights and contribute an...
Stats NZ has reported that guest nights spent in short-term accommodation reached record levels in January 2018 rising to 4.97 million, 1.4 percent higher than in January 2017.
