Local travellers continue to boost guest nights in May

Local travellers continue to boost guest nights in May
Victoria Young
By Victoria Young July 12 (BusinessDesk) - Domestic travellers continued to shore up accommodation guest nights in May, helping offset an ongoing slide in international visitors. Total guest nights were up 0.9 percent to 2.56 million, underpinned by a 6.6 percent rise in domestic traveller guest nights to 1.59 million, Stats NZ said. International guest nights, meanwhile, continued to drop, falling 7.4 percent to 970,000 in May. It was the sixth consecutive month that international guest nights had fallen from year-earlier levels. For...

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