Tourism, growth and infrastructure demands: data review and gap analysis

Abstract

The Ministry of Tourism is leading a three-year project that aims to establish the demands placed on New Zealand’s infrastructure by the forecast growth in tourism demand. One of the key outcomes from this work will be the development of a reliable predictive model of tourist demand on infrastructure. This review contributes to this three-year project and reports on existing knowledge and data on the relationship between tourists and tourism industry behaviour on key infrastructure in New Zealand. Infrastructure is provided by both the local government and the private sector. This review focuses mainly on public sector rather than private sector infrastructure. The infrastructures of particular interest in this review are those typically provided by local territorial authorities (TLA) and used by tourists.