More People Bedding Down In Hotels
Hotels were the bright spot in last month’s accommodation survey, reporting a rise in guests when lower-cost alternatives saw a decline.
Hotel guest nights rose 5.9% to 864,000 in September from the same month in 2009, according to Statistics New Zealand’s monthly accommodation survey.
For a third month in a row it was the only sector to record growth.
The total number of visitors fell an annual 1.2% to 2.2 million stays, in the 11th straight month-on-month decline.
“The trend for the total number of guest nights shows a slow decline for the latest 11 months,” the department said in its report.
“It is down 1.5% from the October 2009 peak and is 2.5% below the highest month of December 2007.”
International guest nights fell 1.8% and there were 0.9% fewer domestic travellers in September.
That came in a month where short-term visitor arrivals rose an annual 1% to 174,200, the most number of foreign tourists in a September month.
Eight of the 12 regions surveyed reported declines in the number of guest nights, led
Auckland, Bay of Plenty and Otago reported the biggest gains.
Guests at holiday parks dropped 10%, or 33,000, in September from the same month in 2009, while backpackers fell 7.2%, or 21,000, and motels declined 2.7%, 21,000.
Hotels still made up the biggest share of guest nights at 40%, followed
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