Tourism Electronic Card Transactions

10 January 2025

MBIE

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The Tourism electronic card transactions (TECTs), produced by MBIE, were an interim replacement for the Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates (MRTEs, 2016 to 2020 series) to understand tourism spend activity in New Zealand. More information can be found on MBIE's website. The latest microdata files can be found below, with interactive visualisations on our Reliance on tourism page of the Sustainable Tourism Explorer.