Tourism funding
Investment in quality infrastructure and tourism assets helps creates positive economic, social and environmental benefits for New Zealanders and our visitors.
Investment in quality infrastructure and tourism assets helps creates positive economic, social and environmental benefits for New Zealanders and our visitors.
This section brings together MBIE’s core tourism data sources to help users understand visitor behaviour, industry performance, and tourism’s wider economic impact. It includes regularly released datasets, surveys, and supporting materials.
The $50 million Regional Events Fund is designed to stimulate domestic tourism and travel between regions through holding events. This is intended to support the tourism and events sector, and replace some of the spending from international tourists due to the border closure as a result of COVID-19.
The projects funded by the IVL are examples of how visitors have directly contributed to the unique natural heritage they enjoy, and the infrastructure they use while they’re here.
We assess all applications to the Tourism Infrastructure Fund for eligibility and put through an independent financial assessment before being considered by a funding panel.
The Tourism Data Domain Plan sets out the main priorities for tourism statistics, based on agreement by industry and government stakeholders.
The IVL is a $100 levy that is charged to most international visitors to New Zealand. It aims to address current challenges in the tourism and conservation systems.
The Regional Tourism Indicators (RTIs) were designed to provide data on tourism spending in the various regions of New Zealand, using electronic card transaction data as the source.
Ngā Haerenga New Zealand Cycle Trails include the Great Rides, Heartland Rides and some of the cycle trails in the Urban Cycling Network.
This page has graphs and tables that show changes in international expenditure based on data from April 2016.
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