New Zealand Tourism Information

Goals:
Find role of tourism in GDP
Number of travelers
Incoming & outgoing tourism tendencies
3 popular tourism objects in country.
GDP
3,8% of GDP is contributed by tourism($6.4 billion)
Tourists generated $1.6 billion in goods and services tax (GST) revenue.
The tourism industry directly employed 94,600 full-time equivalent employees (4.9% of total employment in New Zealand), an increase of 0.4% from the previous year.
Numbers of travelers
2`438`626 tourists visited New Zealand till October this year.
In 2008 from January till October New Zealand visited 2`463`055 tourists (+1%)
Top countries incoming:
United Kingdom
United States of America
People's Republic of China.
Tourism tendencies
“Thanks” to N1H1 virus it was predicted that tourism in fall dramatically by -4.2%. Reality -1%
More tourists are interested about New Zealand by watching sports games. Rugby team is one of the best in the world.
It is predicted that in next 7 years tourist number will increase by 18.6%(Australia+23.6%, China+62.6%).…