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Allocation of funding
The TDLG have been tasked with recommending how the allocation of $5.08 million from the International Visitor Levy (IVL) is used to support improvements in the tourism data system.
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The purpose of this IVL allocation is to:
- support new or enhanced data, insights, and research initiatives that help realise consistent, reliable, and trusted information that benefit all New Zealanders moving forward
- enable the functioning of the TDLG, including procurement of professional and technical services
The Group have agreed to recommend the following indicative allocations. The recommended roadmap allocations are estimates across the four Pou, based on the best available information. For the four new data generation initiatives[5], 2 years of collection is covered by the recommended allocation. Investment in subsequent years, to be confirmed as a result of the work to develop a new sector-wide co-funding model.

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TDLG recommended roadmap initiatives, available funds $4.1million distributed across the four pou
- Māuitanga and innovation — $300 to $400,000
- Core datasets — $2.6 to $2.82 million
- Regenerative transformation — $575 to $630,000
- Leadership and capability — $210 to $250,000
Partnership fund
Up to $400,000 available to sector-led initiatives (not already identified in the roadmap) that align with eh TDLG’s long-term vision
Operational costs
$500,000 (including those to date) to cover increased Secretariat support, monitoring and evaluation
[5] Tourism volumes and flows, short-term rental accommodation, community sentiment measures, and domestic visitor measures.