Period specific information: TSA 2025

Period-specific information: TSA 2025 Data updates Tourism satellite account: Year ended March 2025 includes updates made to both the domestic and international tourism expenditure series. These updates cause changes to the value of tourism expenditure in the New Zealand economy and affect the official tourism satellite account (TSA) time series. Updates to the expenditure series included the following. Historic changes to export education source data used to derive international student expenditure. Updated source data used in the derivation of imputed rental on holiday homes. Methodological improvements and changes: integrating updated Annual Enterprise Survey (AES) data (2022 and 2023) and AES 2024 data with household tourism expenditure estimates (HTEE) continued modelling of the HTEE to the year ended March 2025 due to changes in data supply arrangements updated HTEE supplementary data sources national accounts data, including updated nominal GDP statistics (see 2025 preview of national accounts improvements. Updates were also made to annual Linked Employer-Employee Data and Household Labour Force Survey sources used in determining tourism employment. Tourism industry ratios are impacted because of these updates. 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 updated the historical value added-time series. Together with the ratio changes, we also updated the tourism employment time series. Tourism industry ratios are impacted because of these expenditure 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 historical value added-time series. Together with the ratio changes, we also revised the tourism employment time series. The below table shows the impact of these data updates on the previous three years of data. Provisional year data is subject to larger revisions than previous years due to having fewer data sources than final year estimates. For example, the Tourism Satellite Account: Year ended March 2024 release contained data for the provisional 2024 year. Since that publication, data for 2024 from supply and use balancing in the annual national accounts has become available. See methodology section for more information (link to methodology section in the Series). Percent revision from last estimate: Year ended March 2022 2023 2024 Total tourism expenditure Total tourism expenditure -0.4 -0.6 1.6 Number of people directly employed in tourism -0.4 -0.6 3.7 Direct Contribution to GDP (percentage points) 0 0 0.1 Key events that influenced tourism for year ended March 2025 Here are the significant events that influenced tourism in the year ended March 2025. New Zealand Cruise Association reported 20% drop in passenger numbers over 2024/25 summer. From April to October, Air New Zealand paused its service from Auckland to Chicago. Singapore Airlines & Air New Zealand increased capacity including an additional daily flight over the Northern Winter. In May Air New Zealand resumed its direct seasonal flights from Auckland to Sunshine Coast of Australia. In July the Department of Conservation increased fees for great walks by 18%. In July Batik Air Malaysia suspended all flights between Auckland and Perth. Air New Zealand expanded capacity by 30,000 seats for domestic flights over July school holidays Tourism NZ announced four year plan to boost tourism from May. From September, transit visa applicants can use the Enhance Immigration Online System. In October, fees for visas increased. The International visitor levy also increased from $35 to $100 For half of October, Air New Zealand increased flights to Samoa by 29% for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. From October, Air New Zealand resumed direct flights from Auckland to Hobart after pause over winter period. Air New Zealand seasonal service to Seoul resuming from October to March with an additional three flights per week. Air New Zealand & Cathay Pacific partnership extended. From November to March, Air New Zealand increased capacity by 30,000 seats for flights from Tokyo. Air New Zealand changes flights to Bali from seasonal to year-round. From December, Jetstar started a new year round service from Auckland to Sunshine Coast with 60,000 seats per year. Changes to Accredited Employer Work Visa lowering restrictions on hiring overseas workers from January. Cathay Pacific resumes Christchurch to Hong Kong seasonal service. In December, China Airlines started a new service between Auckland & Melbourne with five flights per week. Government announced plan to grow international student numbers by 26% over next two years. en-NZ