Period-specific information: TSA 2019

Period-specific information: TSA 2019 Data updates Tourism satellite account: 2019 includes revisions made to both the domestic and international tourism expenditure series. These revisions caused changes to the value of tourism expenditure in the New Zealand economy, and affect the official tourism satellite account (TSA) time series back to 1999. Revisions to the expenditure series included: incorporating updated living cost ratios (from 2018) and historic changes to export education levy data used to derive international student expenditure updated cruise expenditure estimates including the combined impact of revised traveller by port statistics, changes to existing expenditure sources, and additional data providers GST paid on purchases by tourists stemming from further refinements to the work undertaken in 2018 to improve the way GST is allocated to tourism-related goods and services methodological improvements to how we: integrated Household tourism expenditure estimates (HTEE) with Annual enterprise survey (AES) data across the timeseries incorporated 2018 AES data updated supplementary data sources 2018 methodological improvements to national accounts, including revised nominal GDP statistics in 2017 and 2018. Tourism industry ratios are impacted because of these revisions. These ratios are the proportion of an industry’s output that is consumed by tourists and are used to calculate value-added and tourism employment estimates. As a result of the ratio changes, we revised the value added-time series back to 1999. Together with the ratio changes, we revised the tourism employment time series back to 2000. Key events that influenced tourism for year ended March 2019 Significant changes to flights in the year ended March 2019 included: Air New Zealand added six additional weekly return services between Auckland and Dunedin. Air New Zealand added 12 additional weekly flights between Palmerston North and Auckland, and 12 additional weekly flights between Napier and Auckland. Air New Zealand increased its service between Queenstown and Wellington to two return flights daily from November to March. Air New Zealand suspended its service between Auckland and the Kapiti Coast. Air New Zealand began non-stop services between Auckland and Taipei. Air New Zealand launched services between Auckland and Chicago using a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. Air New Zealand began two new trans-Tasman routes – services between Queenstown and Brisbane, and between Wellington and Brisbane. Air New Zealand added additional services from Auckland and Christchurch to Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney. Air New Zealand added a Monday return service between Auckland and Gold Coast. Air New Zealand increased its service between Auckland and Bali to five times a week during peak times. Air New Zealand increased its service between Auckland and Honolulu from April to October, adding almost 60,000 extra seats. Air New Zealand added 16,000 seats on its service between Auckland and Houston from March to October. Air New Zealand increased its capacity on the service between Auckland and Vancouver during the year. Air New Zealand added nearly 6,000 seats to its seasonal service between Christchurch and Nadi. Air New Zealand and Qantas agreed to codeshare on New Zealand and Australia domestic networks. Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia ended their trans-Tasman alliance. Air New Zealand and Singapore Airlines increased services to daily between Auckland and Singapore from October to March. Emirates began a new daily service from Auckland to Bali then onto Dubai. Air Tahiti began a service between Auckland and Papeete flying three times a week. Virgin Australia resumed their winter service between Christchurch and Rarotonga from June to October. Singapore Airlines rerouted the service between Wellington and Singapore through Melbourne. China Southern Airlines commenced a Boeing 787-9 service between Christchurch and Guangzhou. Cruise voyages and passenger numbers grew strongly over the March 2016–19 years. The Easter public holidays occurred partly in the year ended March 2019 and 2018, did not occur in the year ended March 2017, and occurred twice in the year ended March 2016. en-NZ