Tourism Eastland commissions APR consultants to survey people staying with Friends and Relatives and Statistics NZ to provide data on visitors staying in Commercial Accomodation. The following Excel table is a spreadsheet that records these statistcs. Please read them carefully as there are many reasons for people visiting Gisborne such as: Business, Sports/Hobbies/Recreation, General Holiday, Visiting Family or Friends and Events. Click here to view Gisborne's Statistics.
To view an Excel spreadsheet of visitor numbers to the Gisborne i-SITE Click here Note that these figures are taken from the door counter.
To view google stats of our website (www.gisbornenz.com) click here. You will need to contact us for the password.
This information can be drilled down to detailed statistics on the Gisborne district for tourism, click here for details. It will download in Excel and may take some time as it is a relatively big file. Please not these stats are only commercial accommodation and do not include visitors staying with friends and relatives. These visitors at certain times of the year can make up 50% of visitors to the Gisborne district.
Select the middle option Territorial Authority and then select Gisborne for local stats.
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The Tourism Research Council of New Zealand's forecasting programme is designed to anticipate future tourism demand. Their forecasts include international visitor arrivals, nights spent, expenditure, regional activity of international visitors and NZ outbound and domestic travel.
Other sources of statistics include: Statisphere, New Zealand's official statistics portal. Statisphere provides information about New Zealand's official statistics: http://www.statisphere.govt.nz/default.htm. It enables users, producers and researchers to quickly find all available official statistics.
NIWA is the National Institute of Weather Statistics: http://www.niwa.cri.nz/