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Tourism expenditure

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Tourism expenditure

The tourist industry often focuses on international tourism – yet domestic tourists spend more each year than international tourists. The importance of international tourism is that it brings in foreign exchange, and can be seen as similar to exports.

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Source: Statistics New Zealand

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Margaret McClure, Tourist industry – Challenges to the industry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/23220/tourism-expenditure (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Margaret McClure, published 2 March 2010.