The Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment recently launched their new Tourism Recovery Dashboard.
This dashboard tracks the border reopening and its effect on the recovery of the tourism sector from the COVID-19 pandemic.
This will be updated weekly with StatsNZ provisional border crossing and visitor arrival data, and Marketview international electronic card spend.
Border crossing data measures all crossings in and out of New Zealand every day. These data do not incorporate arrival card information so no breakdown of traveller type (e.g. overseas visitor, New Zealand resident) is available.
Visitor arrival data measures the arrivals of short-term overseas visitors from Australia and other countries. Data on other countries will be made available as the border reopens to visa-waiver countries from May.
International electronic card spend indicates change in spend patterns in the economy, and in particular, cards from overseas financial institutions that transact on the Paymark network. Transactions outside the Paymark network (e.g. cash, online spend) are not included. See the Consumer Spend Dashboard to better understand the limitations of this dataset.
International visitor flow data from Data Ventures is coming soon.
Check it out for yourself here.
