{"id":63687,"date":"2015-10-27T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=63687"},"modified":"2015-10-27T03:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T08:00:20","slug":"chinese-u-s-visitors-drive-record-tourism-spending-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/27\/chinese-u-s-visitors-drive-record-tourism-spending-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese, U.S. visitors drive record tourism spending in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_63688\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63688\" style=\"width: 993px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Whanganui_River.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63688\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Whanganui_River.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo from Wikipedia)\" width=\"993\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Whanganui_River.jpg 993w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Whanganui_River-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tourism_in_New_Zealand\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WELLINGTON\u2014Visitors from China and the United States boosted tourism spending in New Zealand by 17.1 percent to a record 11.8 billion NZ dollars (7.95 billion U.S. dollars) in the year to the end of March, the government statistics agency said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreasing visitor numbers from China and the United States drove the increase in spending by international tourists,\u201d Statistics New Zealand national accounts senior manager Gary Dunnet said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the highest level of international tourism expenditure since these statistics began in 1999.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tourism generated a direct contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) of 10.6 billion NZ dollars (7.14 billion U.S. dollars), or 4.9 percent of GDP, and directly employed 168,012 people, or 6.9 percent of the total number of people in work.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism Industry Association New Zealand chief executive Chris Roberts said tourism spending was rising ahead of projections and the strong growth was expected to continue.<\/p>\n<p>Tourist spending accounted for 17.4 percent of New Zealand\u2019s total exports, up from 15 percent year on year, Roberts said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternational visitor arrivals recently surpassed 3 million a year, but more importantly, there&#8217;s been strong double digit growth in spend by those visitors,\u201d said Roberts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELLINGTON\u2014Visitors from China and the United States boosted tourism spending in New Zealand by 17.1 percent to a record 11.8 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":63688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-63687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-original","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}