Tourism satellite account

Last updated: October 2012

The Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) 2012 provides a picture of the role tourism plays in New Zealand, with information on the changing levels and impact of tourism activity.  It presents information on tourism's contribution to the New Zealand economy in terms of expenditure and employment.

• TSA key data
• TSA commentary
• TSA tables

TSA key data

Last updated: October 2012

The Tourism Satellite Account 2012 provides key measures of tourism’s contribution to the New Zealand economy.

• Tourism Satellite Account 2012 Key Data [51 KB XLS]

TSA commentary

Last updated: October 2012

The Tourism Satellite Account 2012 provides key measures of tourism’s contribution to the New Zealand economy.

• Tourism Satellite Account 2012 Report [828 KB PDF]

Year to March 2012 (released October 2012)

• Tourism Expenditure
  Total tourism expenditure was $23.4 billion, an increase of 2.4% from the previous year.
• Tourism Contribution to GDP
  Tourism generated a direct contribution to GDP of $6.2 billion, or 3.3% of GDP. The indirect value added of industries supporting tourism generated an additional $9.7 billion to tourism or 5.2% of GDP.
• Domestic and International Segments
  Domestic tourism expenditure was $13.8 billion, an increase of 3.0% from the year ended March 2011, while international tourism expenditure increased 1.6% to $9.6 billion.
• Tourism Export Earnings
  International tourist expenditure to the year ended March 2012 ($9.6 billion) represents 15.4% of the total export earnings ($62.2 billion). Tourism is New Zealand’s second largest export earner, followed dairy ($12.7 billion or 20.4% of exports) in 2012.
• Tourism Employment
  The tourism industry directly employed 119,800 full-time equivalents (or 6.2% of total employment in New Zealand), virtually unchanged from the previous year.
• Tourism Contribution to GST
  Tourists generated $1.3 billion in goods and services tax (GST) revenue.

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Note

Tourism Satellite Account: 2012 incorporates the new industry classification, Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification 2006 (ANZSIC06), which better represents the current economy. This has resulted in a change in the composition of tourism industries and commodities, and has led to revisions to expenditure and employment measures throughout the official time series back to 1999.

More detailed TSA data and technical information is available on the Statistics NZ website.

TSA tables

2012 Tourism Satellite Account Tables

• Tourism Satellite Account 2012: Excel Tables 1-13 [336 KB XLS]

• Tourism Satellite Account 2012: Excel Tables 16-23 [155 KB XLS]

• Tourism Satellite Account 2012: Excel Tables 24-31 [155 KB PDF]

2011 Tourism Satellite Account Tables

• Tourism Satellite Account 2011 [317 KB XLS]

Note

Tables 16–23 contain detailed tables for the year ended March 2008. Tables 24 - 31 contain detailed tables for the year ended March 2009 - the latest year for which detailed “supply and use tables” are available.