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2022 Financial Year passenger numbers*

3.26 million passengers travelled in and out of Christchurch Airport in the 2022 financial year. That compares to 3.71 million the prior year and just under 7 million pre-pandemic.

Domestic passengers reduced 15% year on year whilst international passengers grew 152% as borders began to reopen in the second half of the year.

For visitor arrival numbers by country of residence, please refer to Statistics New Zealand's monthly releases.

View our monthly passenger arrivals and departures here.

2022 Financial Year reporting*

Net Profit After Tax, including underlying operating profit and revaluations of our investment property, totalled $59.5 million compared to $38.7 million the previous year.

Our property portfolio performed strongly. Fair value gains on our investment property portfolio were $48.4 million, compared to $47.8 million the previous year. Our overall investment property portfolio was valued at $714 million, up 10.2% on the previous year.

Our balance sheet strengthened with total asset book value increasing to $2,148 million. That's growth of about $225 million since the start of the pandemic.

The Board of Directors declared a dividend of $2.8 million.

As a result we reported a positive Net Profit After Tax and paid a dividend each year of the pandemic.

Want to learn more? You can view our Annual Reviews here.
*to end of June 2022
Supporting our community

As a business, we support the Christchurch, Canterbury and South Island economy in a wide range of ways:

More than 7,000 people are employed on the airport campus in full time, part time or casual roles, making it the largest single centre of employment in the South Island.

We create employment for more than 20,000 full time equivalent workers in the Canterbury region.

Antarctic operations delivers $80 million in direct benefits to the city annually.

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Facts and Figures - Christchurch Airport

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3.26 million passengers travelled in and out of Christchurch Airport in the 2022 financial year. That compares to 3.71 million the prior year and just under 7 million pre-pandemic. Domestic passengers reduced 15% year on year whilst international passengers grew 152% as borders began to reopen in the second half of the year.

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Visitor Spend Update for YE December 2021

Christchurch visitor spending has started to slowly recover from the impact of Covid 19. The total visitor spending has increased 9.6% or $83m in 2021 when compared to 2020. However, it has still not reached the level of spending achieved in 2019 before the pandemic. When compared to 2019, the total visitor spending in 2021 was lower by -5.13% or -$51m.

Christchurch proved itself to be a popular domestic visitor destination in most of 2021 except for August, thanks largely to a new vibrant central city, a strong major events portfolio and unprecedent domestic engagement with the regional tourism marketing campaign, ExploreCHC. Domestic visitor spending in Christchurch increased by 20.2% or $143m when compared to 2020 and by 19.7% or $140m when compared to 2019. There was a drop of -49.5% in domestic visitor spending in the month of August 2021 when compared to the previous month July 2021 is most likely due to the city moving to Alert level 4 again for 2 weeks.

The international visitor spending for 2021 decreased -37.8% or -$60m when compared to 2020 and -66.9% or -$199.2m when compared to 2019. The travel bubble with some regions of Australia in mid-2021 resulted in an increased visitor spending of 98% or $11.2m when compared to 2020. However, once the travel bubble was paused due to the Delta variant by end of July, the spending continued to slow down.

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Christchurch Tourism And Business Events Research

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Visitor Spend Update for YE December 2021 Christchurch visitor spending has started to slowly recover from the impact of Covid 19. The total visitor spending has increased 9.6% or $83m in 2021 when compared to 2020. However, it has still not reached the level of spending achieved in 2019 before the pandemic.

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Tourism GDP i has grown rapidly in New Zealand since 2000. Not only has the number of overseas tourist arrivals increased substantially, but the level of domestic tourism has also expanded rapidly as spending on leisure by New Zealand residents increased. This section describes the contribution of tourism to total GDP in Auckland.

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Rotorua tourism rebuilding as world opens up

While Rotorua is well known for its appeal to international visitors and well over half the visitors to the Rotorua's attractions and activities sites were by international visitors prior to COVID, it is domestic visitors which contributed the largest proportion of visitor expenditure to the Rotorua economy. In the early years of the COVID pandemic the focus was on strengthening the domestic market during a period when New Zealand border closures prevented many New Zealanders travelling overseas.

Now that the New Zealand border has reopened to the world the priority continues to be ensuring the domestic market remains strong while also rebuilding connections with international markets. Electronic card expenditure by visitors in Rotorua for the year ending April 2022 was $289 million including $18 million from international cardholders, which is equivalent to 15% of the $124 million international cardholders spent in Rotorua in the year prior to the COVID pandemic.

Clear As Mud
Compiled by Rotorua Economic Development, this easy to understand blog is aimed at Rotorua businesses and potential investors to help inform decision making and encourage evidence-based inquiry.

Rotorua Insights Dashboard

Compiled by Rotorua Economic Development, the dashboard provides a single portal for reviewing tourism data across various sources. The dashboard is a work in progress and will continue to be developed, but already is proving valuable to viewers.
Rotorua Accommodation Dashboard
This dashboard presents key information about the commercial accommodation sector in Rotorua. This includes the number of providers, number of rooms, the status of accommodation facilities, and a whole lot more.

Rotorua Tourism Key Facts

Compiled by Rotorua Economic Development, the purpose of this factsheet is to assist in preparing speeches and presentations.
Rotorua Tourism Snapshot
Compiled by Rotorua Economic Development, the snapshot provides an infographical illustration of visitor activity occurring in the Rotorua region.

Tourism Recovery Dashboard
Compiled by MBIE, the Tourism Recovery Dashboard tracks the border reopening and its effect on the recovery of the tourism sector from the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes airport arrivals, international spend and airline capacity.
New Zealand Tourism Electronic Card Transactions (TECT)
Compiled monthly by MBIE, the TECT quantifies the electronic card spending at merchant Point of Sale terminals in each of the regional tourism organisation regions, including Rotorua. Effective from the November 2020 release, the TECT is an interim replacement for the MRTE (below).

New Zealand Accommodation Data Programme (ADP)
Compiled monthly by Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), the ADP quantifies the visitor demand and capacity of commercial accommodation in each of the regions, including Rotorua. This programme commenced in July 2020 and replaced the CAM (below).

New Zealand Business Events Data Programme (BEDP)Compiled quarterly by Business Events Industry Aotearoa (BEIA), Regional Tourism Organisations New Zealand (RTNZ), and Tourism New Zealand, the BEDP quantifies business events activity occurring in each of the participating regions, including Rotorua. This programme commenced in July 2020 and replaced the BEAS (below).

Rotorua Visitor Insights Programme (VIP)

Compiled six-monthly by Angus and Associates, the VIP provides a profile of visitors to the region, consumer awareness of Rotorua communications, perceptions of the region, and appeal and propensity to visit Rotorua.
Domestic Growth in Tourism (DGiT)
DGiT is an innovative online tool to help tourism operators and regional tourism organisations maximise the value they get out of domestic tourism. Spearheaded by Tourism Industry Aotearoa, and funded by private and public sector industry representatives, Colmar Brunton was contracted to undertake research and develop the online tool, which included surveying almost 6,000 New Zealanders on their leisure travel habits to understand the different types of domestic travellers, including their motivations for travel. The online tool has many filters, including one to filter it to Rotorua.

Rotorua Attraction & Activities Monitor (RAAM) Discontinued August 2022

Compiled monthly by APR Consultants, the RAAM quantifies the collective visitor activity occurring at the businesses participating in the RAAM.

New Zealand Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates (MRTE) Suspended October 2020

Compiled monthly by MBIE, the MRTE quantifies the visitor expenditure in each of the regional tourism organisation regions, including Rotorua.

New Zealand Commercial Accommodation Monitor (CAM)Discontinued September 2019

Compiled monthly by Statistics New Zealand, the CAM quantifies the visitor demand and capacity of commercial accommodation in each of the regions, including Rotorua. Click here>> for a Rotorua-specific analysis showing trends over the duration of the 20-year survey period.

New Zealand Business Events Activity Survey (BEAS) Discontinued June 2019

Compiled quarterly by MBIE, the BEAS quantifies business events activity occurring in each of the 14 participating regions, including Rotorua.
New Zealand Regional Economic Activity Report (REAR)
Compiled annually by MBIE, the REAR presents economic and visitor data on New Zealand's regions, including Rotorua.

New Zealand Visitor Activity Forecast (NZVAF)

NZVAF has been developed to support investment into tourism attractions. Economic forecast experts Fresh Information, have prepared this forecast on behalf of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE), Tourism New Zealand (TNZ) and the Ministry for Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) as part of the Tourism Attraction Programme. The data is based on information gathered from the International Visitors Survey and from a New Zealand Automobile Association (AA) survey of domestic visitors. The online tool can be filtered by both region (including Rotorua) and activity, and can provide relevant demographic information for the region and activity selected.
New Zealand International Visitor Arrivals (IVA)
Compiled monthly by Statistics NZ, the IVA quantifies the international visitor arrivals to each New Zealand airport, including Rotorua's, for the period when direct flights operated between Sydney and Rotorua (ie. December 2009 through April 2015).

Visit the MBIE tourism evidence and insights website to access freely available New Zealand and regional tourism research and statistics.
Visit the MBIE tourism webpage to access freely available New Zealand and regional tourism research and statistics.
Visit the Tourism New Zealand website to access freely available international market profiles and insights.

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Tourism Statistics 2022- use for homework

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Tourism Statistics 2022- use for homework

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Tourism satellite account: 2019 | Stats NZ

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Read about the role tourism plays in New Zealand, with information on the changing levels and impact of tourism activity.

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100% Pure New Zealand:  A Welcoming Journey

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Find information about tourism in New Zealand.

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http://www.med.govt.nz/sectors-industries/tourism

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Tourism New Zealand's corporate website contains useful information for industry, media and New Zealanders, such as news, insights, data, job vacancies and event listings.

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Qualmark - New Zealand tourism's official mark of quality

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_New_Zealand

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http://www.tianz.org.nz/main/the-power-of-tourism/