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Key Statistics about Tourism
17 July 2006
- Tourism is the world's largest growing industry.
- New Zealand tourism arrivals have doubled since 1994.
- Forecast annual growth is 6% on average for at least the next five years.
- Tourism is New Zealand's single largest export sector and contributed $7.4 billion dollars to the economy in the year ended March 2004. That is 18.5% of exports.
- Tourism directly and indirectly employs 10% of the work force. That is one in 10 jobs in New Zealand.
- Tourism represents 9.6% of gross domestic product and generates nearly $500 million in GST returns from international visitors each year.