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Tania Walters | Publisher
The global hotel industry is stepping up in 2025, shaped by evolving customer expectations, rapid technological advancements, and an intensified focus on sustainability. As the sector continues to recover from the disruptions of the pandemic, economic uncertainty, and natural disasters, hoteliers are turning to innovation to meet shifting demands and build long-term resilience.
A major trend driving the industry forward is the rise of experience-driven stays. Today’s travellers expect more than just a place to sleep; they seek immersive, personalised experiences. In response, hotels are offering hyperpersonalised services, seamless digital integration, and curated experiences that extend beyond traditional hospitality.
Technology remains a gamechanger, streamlining operations and enhancing guest interactions. AI-powered concierge services, smart room automation, and frictionless check-in and
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check-out processes are now commonplace, improving convenience and efficiency. At the same time, sustainability is becoming a standard rather than an option, with hotels implementing energy-efficient systems, water conservation initiatives, and waste reduction strategies to align with growing environmental expectations.
The rise of bleisure travel - a blend of business and leisure - is reshaping the industry. As remote work has created a new class of digital nomads, it has led hotels to adapt with co-working spaces, extended-stay packages, and high-speed connectivity. Meanwhile, corporate travel is making a comeback, and cashedup, downsizing baby boomers remain the driving force in holiday bookings.
Whether it’s adopting sustainable solutions, leveraging cutting-edge technology, or enhancing guest experiences, the HOTEL BUYERS GUIDE provides access to the tools needed to stay ahead in a dynamic market.
Here’s to a year of growth, innovation, and excellence in hospitality.
Tourism satellite account (TSA) provides an overview of tourism’s role in New Zealand, highlighting the changing levels and impact of tourism activity.
This release covers provisional figures for the year ended March 2024 and detailed results for 2023.
KEY PROVISIONAL ESTIMATES
For the year ended March 2024 (expressed in nominal terms):
• total tourism expenditure was $44.4 billion, up 14.6 percent ($5.6 billion) from 2023
• international tourism expenditure was up 59.9 percent ($6.3 billion) to $16.9 billion, returning to levels similar to 2019 ($17.2 billion)
• international student expenditure (studying less than 12 months) was $3.8 billion, up 76.2 percent ($1.6 billion)
• GST from international tourists totalled $1.7 billion, up $689 million
• international tourism’s contribution to total exports of goods and services was 17.2 percent, up 6.0 percentage points
• overseas visitor arrivals to New Zealand increased 44.8 percent to 3,183,376
• domestic tourism expenditure decreased 2.5 percent ($697 million) to $27.5 billion
• household tourism expenditure decreased 5.8 percent ($1.3 billion)
• business and government expenditure increased 8.4 percent ($559 million)
• tourism’s direct contribution to GDP was $17.0 billion (4.4 percent of GDP), up 16.0 percent ($2.3 billion)
• indirect value added of industries supporting tourism was $11.7 billion (3.1 percent of GDP)
• the number of people directly employed in tourism was 182,727, up 13.5 percent (21,729 people)
• the number of tourism employees was 159,030, up 13.3 percent (18,624 people)
• the number of tourism working proprietors was 23,697, up 15.1 percent (3,102 people)
• direct tourism employment as a share of the total number of people employed in New Zealand was 6.4 percent.
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It’s About GROWTH
Hotel Council Aotearoa represents more than 230 of New Zealand’s major hotels.
We are a memberled, not-for-profit industry association that works to secure the best possible regulatory settings for the hotel sector in New Zealand. That’s not always been the easiest job following the chaos caused by COVID and closed borders. Having said that, there are reasons for optimism and 2025 could well prove to be a pivotal year for the industry. Firstly; new year, new political leadership, at least in the tourism space. On 19 January, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced a new Minister for Tourism and Hospitality, Hon Louise Upston. Extraordinarily, she will become the fifth NZ Minister of Tourism in the past five years. HCA will encourage Minister Upston to adopt a laser focus on growth and work with
industry to create the right conditions for long-term success.
Let’s first acknowledge that 2024 wasn’t the great leap forward in performance that hoteliers really wanted. New Zealand-wide RevPAR fell by 2.6 percent compared with 2023. International visitation to New Zealand still sits at just over 85 percent of 2018 levels, which puts downward pressure on both occupancy and room rates. In short, top-line revenue since COVID remains weak, while profitability has been hit by significantly higher operating costs.
Post-COVID, New Zealand still has not done enough to dial up marketing efforts and lay out the welcome mat.
During 2024, the International Visitor & Conservation Levy (IVL) was raised from NZD $35 to
JAMES DOOLAN Strategic Director Hotel Council Aotearoa
NZD $100 per person. Visa costs and levies – which are paid in addition to the IVL – were also ramped up, and it still seems that processing times are too long. New Zealand needs to quickly entice back Chinese and Indian high value travellers, but we are instead making it more difficult and more expensive to come here. Ironically, China itself has introduced wide-ranging visa-free travel to help grow its inbound tourism. The money collected via the IVL could – and should – be quickly put to work to drive the recovery in demand.
The event attraction and destination marketing side of things is close to shambolic despite this being a key path to recovery and growth.
Central government funding for Tourism New Zealand’s destination marketing sat at NZD
Unfortunately, Auckland Council has in recent budgets taken the axe to event attraction and destination marketing spend, arguing that “ordinary ratepayers” don’t get value from it.
$116 million in 2014. Ten years later, despite significant inflation and the “minor inconvenience” of a global pandemic, funding has gone backwards to NZD $106 million. Across that 10-year period, cumulative inflation has been 30 percent while the NZ dollar had fallen more than 25 percent against the US dollar. In short, Tourism New Zealand today has much less international firepower in a much more expensive and competitive world. Competitor destinations are not making the same mistake.
At a regional level, ten years ago Auckland Council used to fund event attraction and destination marketing to the tune of around NZD $30 million annually. This is important spending because Auckland is the gateway city for 70 percent of international visitor arrivals. Unfortunately, Auckland Council has in recent budgets taken the axe to event attraction and destination marketing spend, arguing that “ordinary ratepayers” don’t get value from it. This is despite Aucklanders flocking in huge numbers to major events such as the FIFA Women’s World Cup, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay and Pearl Jam concerts, all of which require subvention funding.
Meanwhile, smaller regions including the Hawkes Bay have radically cut investment in tourism as well, admittedly from a lower base.
Let’s not forget the opportunity in meetings, incentives, conferences and events (MICE). Having rolled out three brand new
convention centres in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland (soon!), NZ should be backing that infrastructure investment with some serious additional events-focused marketing spend, not going in the opposite direction.
None of this stuff is particularly revolutionary or controversial, but urgency and action have been missing. Simply put, we need the international tourists back and we need to quickly grow visitation to around 130 percent of pre-COVID levels to be back at “par”. HCA has been saying this for years. Everything else is lower priority.
HCA has worked closely alongside other tourismconnected industry groups including TIA, BEIA, Hospitality New Zealand, NZEA and numerous others.
In the coming twelve months, HCA will continue to engage in good faith with any and all stakeholders on the issues that matter; offering up our ideas, our data and industry insight. Hoteliers remain open to supporting new tourism revenueraising mechanisms, but these need to be done once and done right, with appropriate industry involvement. New money should not be thrown into the mix without some major reform and changed attitudes to growth and sustainable investment.
As it was in 2022, 2023 and 2024, the key issue for New Zealand’s tourism industry in 2025 is getting bums on seats and heads in beds. Once again, it’s all about growth. «
CHANGE IS ALL AROUND
together, we can navigate it
We recently held our Tourism Summit Aotearoa in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland.
REBECCA INGRAM Chief Executive Tourism Industry Aotearoa
The Tourism Summit offers a moment each year to connect, learn and progress our thinking. But it’s also where we take stock.
The way visitors engage with destinations is constantly evolving. At this year’s Tourism Summit Aotearoa, we explored this, within an ever-changing tourism landscape.
TIA also launched our white paper on Visitor Experience in a Changing World, as a companion to the summit programme. We’ve published this, and it is available for free, on our website.
It was especially fitting to hold
the summit, and to launch a white paper discussing visitor experience, in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland – where 70 percent of all international visitors begin their journey in Aotearoa New Zealand.
This port of entry is a critical part of the “visitor journey” – the place where so many experiences people dream of for years, and will remember for a lifetime, begin.
Taking stock
It is a pivotal time for our industry. TIA is an association made up of about 1200 tourism
inspired by what they do. This also means we have a unique and wide-reaching perspective on what’s happening in the industry.
Tourism 2050 – update
At Tourism Summit Aotearoa last year, we launched the industry’s strategy, Tourism 2050: A Blueprint for Impact. This lays out the industry’s vision for a tourism that delivers strongly and positively for Aotearoa New Zealand, our people, our economy, and our environment.
A central premise of Tourism 2050 is balanced growth –ensuring the different aspects of the tourism industry develop in a way complementary to each other and add benefit at place, and as a whole.
The Blueprint canvases the global and local factors that will pull and push the way tourism develops here. It articulates how we will proactively respond to mature our tourism offering and impact.
businesses, spread from the top of the country to the bottom and everywhere in between.
TIA’s purpose is to enable outstanding tourism. On behalf of our members and for the greater good we: Advocate, Problem Solve, Imagine, Champion, Connect and Partner.
We do what no single business or association could do on their own because we represent all sectors of the country’s large and diverse tourism community.
We are incredibly appreciative of our members and constantly
In a very real sense, we have the opportunity — and the plan — to predict a great future by creating it.
We believe that, with the right settings, tourism could be worth $55 billion per year by 2030. And we can deliver this in a sustainable, resilient way.
2030 is 5 years away.
2050 feels like a long way off, but 2030 isn’t. That’s why we set 2030 as the target delivery date for our 10 actions in Tourism 2050 - A Blueprint for impact. There’s nothing like a deadline to create momentum. 2030 is just over 1800 days from today. To put that in perspective it’s two or three new iPhone launches, a couple of elections, or the college education of one of our rangitahi
if they stay to the end.
This isn’t the “distant future” anymore – 2030 is now inside the mid-term business planning window. It’s that sometimes uncomfortable question: “So, where do you see yourself in five years?”.
And so, we asked ourselves; what will the Visitor Experience look like in this changing world to 2030?
Industry, visitors and technology
So much is changing in tourism, including our customers, the technologies we all use, and the industry itself.
The future visitor experience will be enriched by a wide range of technologies that will make travel easier, more informed and more connected.
These changes will deepen the visitor experience in ways that add value for our visitors and the industry itself.
The experience is the primary reason people travel. The responsibility for this lies with everyone who has touchpoints with visitors. This spreads the net widely.
It covers all the businesses looking after visitors directly –domestic and international. The infrastructure providers running airports, ports and border services, or maintaining the roads, footpaths, tracks, parks, and beaches our visitors use.
And others in the system too including central and local government, and all those businesses that warmly welcome but may not necessarily know they are a part of the tourism industry.
Together we make up the visitor experience, all of our interactions and manaakitanga piece together to leave our visitors feeling inspired, moved, challenged and connected to our place. The future of tourism is a shared endeavour.
Change is all around us – but we can navigate it, together. «
Generating a Vibrant CITY BUZZ
Pearl Jam and Coldplay concerts in November were a great reminder of the tremendous buzz that comes with large, popular events. Auckland’s city centre was alive with people, with a positive and infectious uplift in spirit - regardless of whether you were going to one of the five concerts held over 12 days.
The boost for accommodation providers was palpable, with increased room nights and revenue across the board. Not seen since Pink’s concert in March, this was welcome for a sector that has continued to grow in capacity and collect local and international accolades but has not yet seen consistent growth in visitation post-covid.
The quality of the city centre restaurant and hospitality offer continues to shine in consumer and industry awards. It’s easy to understand why, year in year out, dining is one of our key attractions for visitors. And despite cost-of-living impacts, we were pleased with the response to our Restaurant Month event
in August, which highlighted the diversity of the offering at different price points. A high proportion of respondents from those who participated said that “Restaurant Month was successful for their business”.
Arts and culture provides experiences you can’t get elsewhere and we expect this to go from strength to strength in the coming years, particularly around the Aotea Arts Quarter. Our Late Night Art event – part of Art Week 2024 – was a lively, urban community event which sparked a surge in foot traffic across the High Street district, with the number of people out and about up nearly 30 percet compared with the prior year. We are buoyed by the response
VIV BECK
Chief Executive, Heart of the City
to our new giant Christmas Tree, Te Manaaki, located in Te Komititanga in lower Queen Street throughout December. We want to be a vibrant, 24/7 international city and it was heartening to see commentary about the significance of Christmas activations in other international cities. As a visitor in places like Rome, New York, San Francisco and Sydney on different occasions, I recall the joy of beautiful decorations when away from home at this special time of year.
Te Manaaki is a gift to the city from Heart of the City in partnership with Precinct Properties and Auckland Council via the city centre targeted rate. We look forward to welcoming both locals and visitors for many Christmas years to come.
There were other positive gains for the city centre in 2024. Safety concerns noticeably eased, with overall crime reducing, helped by more police on the beat and a significant local effort, including
our Heart of the City safety team. This has been made even better with confirmation that a centrally located city centre police station will be operational in 2025.
Economically, 2024 was challenging. A relatively buoyant March quarter, with the highest international visitor spend since 2016 in February, was followed by tough June and September quarters.
The simple reality is that we need more people here and our work is geared towards attracting people to come and giving them reasons to stay longer.
There is optimism looking ahead.
Both the NZ International Convention Centre and the City Rail Link will be game changers when they open. And other developments underway or planned, collectively illustrate confidence in the longer-term.
New hospitality businesses are poised to open in 2025; and international visitor arrivals are projected to keep rising in 2025, driven by global travel demand
and increasing outbound travel from China. In addition, domestic leisure travel is expected to improve as discretionary income grows on the back of lower interest rates.
Data from Tātaki Auckland Unlimited suggests that a possible 3.6 million visitors could touch down in New Zealand by the year ending August 2028, with Auckland receiving the largest share. This projection indicates a recovery trend in visitor arrivals compared with the 2022 baseline.
And, with Auckland’s population forecast to hit two million within the next decade, the city centre is a natural prospect for growth. It was recently named number seven in One Roof’s top 100 neighbourhoods in New Zealand with the most potential. More residents over time will boost vibrancy and provide custom for hospitality businesses.
I’m happy to say that a vibrant, 24/7 international city that is loved by locals and visitors alike is within reach. «
Showcasing the Best OF SMALL BUSINESS
Say ‘B&B’ these days, and most people automatically assume you are talking about Airbnb or unhosted short-term rental accommodation.
ANN MARIE JOHNSON President, Bed & Breakfast Association New Zealand
But traditional hosted Bed & Breakfast accommodation is still going strong across Aotearoa New Zealand.
We increasingly hear from inbound travel operators that they can’t get enough high quality hosted accommodation options to meet demand from their discerning international clientele.
easily be recreated in large-scale accommodation or unhosted places to stay.
and travel agents accounted for half of all bookings, while Online Travel Agents (OTAs), led by Booking.com with 32 percent, contributed 40 percent of bookings.
That has certainly been the case for the 2024-25 season, with many Bed & Breakfast Association members reporting their best season ever, with solid international bookings from November 2024 through to Easter 2025.
As a time when many in Aotearoa New Zealand’s tourism industry are concerned that numbers have not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels, this strong demand is a reassuring sign for the bed and breakfast sector.
Each B&B creates a unique, personalised experience for their guests, reflecting the particular approach and interests of the hosts. They provide the opportunity to visit some of New Zealand’s most beautiful regions and stay off the beaten track.
Most importantly, the B&B experience is all about the people. Guests have the rare opportunity to interact with genuine Kiwis and discover their way of life. They can also meet other guests across the breakfast table, sharing travel stories and tips on places to visit.
These cherished peopleto-people interactions create lifelong memories and cannot
Our B&Bs attract the type of high-spending, slow-travelling visitors that are most valuable to New Zealand, the type of travellers who want to understand and follow the behaviours of the Tiaki Promise.
B&Bs fly under the radar in the wider tourism economy, as data showing the size and value of our accommodation is not generally collected in the official statistics, which are focused on larger accommodation providers.
The average New Zealand B&B operates two or three guest rooms at an average room rate (double occupancy) of $305 per night, although tariffs can range from around $100 to over $1200 per night.
A survey carried out by the Bed & Breakfast Association in 2024 found that the hosted B&B sector added well over NZD$12 million a year to New Zealand’s economy. International visitors accounted for 71 percent of bookings, with five countries providing over half (53 percent) of B&B guests: The Netherlands (16 percent), Germany (12 percent), the UK (11 percent), the USA (eight percent) and Australia (six percent).
Inbound Tour Operators (ITOs)
Members of the Bed & Breakfast Association are able to take advantage of the Association’s Quality Assurance Programme, which offers independent assessments by B&B experts. It’s a fantastic tool designed to help B&B operators ensure they are operating in a safe manner, following best practice standards and meeting guests’ expectations. It’s like a ‘warrant of fitness’ for the business.
It also provides assurance to international travel agents that the property is of a suitable standard for their clients. In these days of so much misinformation, that’s an important consideration for those wanting to target the international market.
And it’s free as part of Association membership!
What our members love most about belonging to the association is the community. There’s always someone to turn to for advice, ideas or just a good conversation about the industry. Plus, the educational resources and networking opportunities we offer can really help operators grow their business and connect with others who are just as passionate about hosting as they are.
For most members, the cost of membership is less than the average cost of one guest night. «
CONTINUED SUCCESS for Holiday Parks
Holiday parks throughout the country have become more adaptable to growing trends, influenced by overseas markets and driven by consumer demand.
One of the main priorities has been to provide more built accommodation for guests along with more facilities such as heated swimming pools, hot tubs and saunas.
Built accommodation can range from up-market apartments to basic cabins, with operators targeting specific market segments.
Chief Executive of Holiday Parks New Zealand, Fergus Brown, said there has been a range of activity in this space.
“We have seen parks develop accommodation specifically for the school and sports group
market. What is becoming increasingly popular are glamping tents. These can range from basic Yurt style tents through to sophisticated safari style tents with two bedrooms a living area and a large deck,” said Brown.
These developments, both the built accommodation and the additional facilities, have been driven by the strategy to target seasonality and to provide more reasons for guests to choose a holiday park outside of the peak summer months.
Much like hotels, online booking platforms have been successfully used by many holiday park
FERGUS BROWN CEO, Holiday Parks New Zealand
operators. This has also made it increasingly easy for guests to select and book a holiday park, and then choose the preferred type of accommodation. Brown added that most parks will also provide high-speed internet, which is another key demand from guests. However, this has proven challenging for some operators, especially in remote areas with limited availability.
Holiday Parks New Zealand has worked with Tourism Industry Aotearoa (TIA) to have all its member parks sign up to the Tourism Sustainability Commitment. An additional 50 parks are Qualmark licensed and
have been evaluated under the Sustainable Tourism Business criteria. The association has continued to work with Qualmark to increase the number of parks that have signed up to its criteria.
Holiday Parks New Zealand is also a national partner of Predator Free New Zealand 2050 Trust, and it has encouraged its members to develop their own plans to contribute to this important goal.
Brown said that holiday parks around the country have employed strategies to compete with and adapt to the growth of the sharing economy in travel.
“The shared economy is an
opportunity for us to increase the distribution of our product to a wide audience. We see guests arriving in motorhomes and campervans that have been hired through providers such as Camplify. Our member parks will list some of their accommodation on platforms such as Airbnb and bookabach.”
Having successfully surpassed COVID times with an increase in guest interest, a strong international market of guests has returned, especially Australian and European visitors. The domestic market has also grown substantially, which is expected to continue in 2025. «
FUTURE GROWTH for Aussie Sector
Australia’s accommodation sector has flourished despite the continuous cost of living trends, with solid bookings for the busy January school holiday period supporting the local industry.
This is according to figures released by the country’s peak accommodation body, Accommodation Australia.
Following on from a highly successful Christmas and New Year period for accommodation providers across the country, new CEO of Accommodation Australia, James Goodwin, said that January looked positive from the offset, with occupancy levels better than this time last year in most capitals.
“Heading into January, Sydney is up two percent, Melbourne three percent, Brisbane four percent, Adelaide one percent and Hobart up 18 percent,” Goodwin said.
He said that this was particularly promising as international tourists still only make up 88 percent of pre-covid levels, and family budgets have obviously been extremely tight given the cost-
of-living pressures. Overall, the Australian accommodation industry saw a strong finish to 2024, with YTD occupancy at 71.4 percent (up 1.8 percent).
“Importantly, this is broadbased demand not tied to specific events like an international concert extravaganza - like we saw with Taylor Swift in February 2024 and we hope this should continue through 2025. Our accommodation sector really is second to none and we see people prioritising a holiday and keen to get out and experience new things this holiday period.”
Goodwin said that 2025 was the perfect opportunity for connecting with other regional markets, notably India, South Korea and Vietnam. He believed that with the Australian Federal Government’s support in the sector’s recovery, there are now better opportunities to facilitate access to landing slots for international flights and promote the idea that international tourists can explore more than just Sydney and Melbourne.
JAMES GOODWIN CEO, Accommodation Australia
Business travel has been another priority at the front of mind of the Australian accommodation industry. Goodwin said that by planning international conferences, which usually take years to achieve, had been heavily impacted by the Covid-lockdowns. He added that it could take another couple of years to fully rebuild that sector to what it was before.
The strong rebound of leisure travel has overshadowed the challenges associated with business travel. Large conferences and events are essential to filling hotels and stimulating the economy, especially in cities with purpose-built, state-of-the-art convention centres.
“The Australian market has witnessed shifts in what tourists (both international and domestic) expect from their travel experiences. They no longer just want a typical hotel stay; there is demand for immersive experiences that connect them with local culture, nature, and community.”
The challenges associated with continent’s remoteness compared to the rest of the world have also made it difficult to lure tourists. Additionally, sustainability concerns have grown. While airlines fly into Australia with sustainable aviation fuel, the industry lacks the infrastructure for them to refuel. Addressing these issues was vital to ensuring Australia remained competitive and appealing as a tourist destination.
The trend of “revenge travel” is also expected to continue in 2025, which has seen travellers splash out on luxurious accommodation stays following years of Covid-19 restrictions that have limited travel. While there are signs that the trend is slowly fading out, Goodwin said that tourists have still sought value and memorable experiences during their stay. This has created the opportunity for businesses to position themselves in a way that reflects various regions of Australia and offers tourists tailored experiences.
The high costs associated with construction, red tape restrictions imposed by councils and government, and disruptions to various supply chains have delayed progress on new developments throughout the sector. Recent urban developments, such as the Sydney Metro, have also driven up costs. Goodwin said that despite difficulty to find the workforce needed for both construction and hospitality roles, there were significant opportunities on the horizon.
“Precinct developments, like the Howard Smith Wharves in Brisbane and Barangaroo in Sydney, have created vibrant areas that attract tourists and stimulate further investment.”
Over the next year, Accommodation Australia will continue to focus on nurturing and advocating for the industry as it tackles its comeback, and helping it to grow and flourish. «
Airport Emission FOCUS
Following the Emission Reduction Plan released by the New Zealand Government in December, local airports throughout the country have posed the question of how the plan will affect aviation.
MATT CLARKE Chairperson, NZ Airport Association
Industry body, NZ Airports, said that the government’s focus areas have remained consistent, and its policies have been designed in order to scale-up renewable energy and to foster a climate transition led by technology. It is also expected to improve marketbased measures in the Emissions Trading Scheme. NZ Airports Chair Matt Clarke said these policies will support the shifts needed across the economy for decarbonisation, with flow-on effects to the aviation sector. NZ Airports has also welcomed
the government’s strong focus on renewable energy. However, it said aviation had remained a blind spot in New Zealand’s energy targets. Electrify NZ, the government’s vanguard policy, has the ability to emphasise the rollout of electricity generation and transmission projects, which have been essential for all airports to prepare for future electric aircraft. Clarke said that New Zealand’s renewable energy targets still do not account for future demand from zeroemission and low-emission aviation.
“We’re disappointed to see no real progress on specific initiatives for aviation decarbonisation. There are general references to aviation, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and the government-industry group Sustainable Aviation Aotearoa, but these are similar in tone to the last ERP two years
ago,” said Clarke.
He added that the SAF had been described as a promising technology that could be part of a technology-led approach to emissions reduction.
“The main new initiative related to this is a Ministerial taskforce on woody bioenergy,
with more details to be released in 2025. This may help us take the conversation on SAF policy forward.”
Clarke added that with the lack of specifics at this stage, New Zealand had risked falling behind its international counterparts. The government has continued
to progress a range of initiatives that measure embodied carbon in buildings and increase the availability of energy performance ratings, which may be useful for both aeronautical and non-aeronautical infrastructure at airports.
The Climate Change Commission argued in its report on international aviation and maritime emissions that by including emissions from international shipping and aviation, it would be feasible for these sectors to be part of New Zealand’s emissions reduction planning.
“We agree action is needed quickly. Inclusion in the 2050 target could be one driver to improve New Zealand’s planning and performance, although New Zealand’s international commitments to ICAO should be sufficient to drive action on their own. Most importantly, any domestic action in New Zealand needs to support and complement global initiatives, including CORSIA,” said Clarke.
“The government has 12 months to respond to the Commission’s recommendation that international aviation and shipping emissions are included in the 2050 target. We hope the process will move faster, and not require the whole year.”
Clarke said the major gap in both the ERP and Commission report was a sophisticated analysis of the state of the local aviation sector and what it will take to achieve net zero by 2050.
“For a country dependent on aviation for our prosperity and wellbeing, we need to see a much stronger focus on how we decarbonise and future-proof this sector. It’s time to get into the detail.” «
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Natural rubber latex comes from one species of rubber tree The composition of latex from different trees varies, but the most common one is native to South America Latex lives just beneath the bark of these rubber trees with naturally ocurring anti-bacterial & hypo-allergenic properties.
Experience an improved comfort layers of ultra soft natural bounce and breathability. combination with layers Anti-Bug treated fabric
“ Luxu r i o us comf o rt fo r you r p re mium gu e sts, sup er bly suppo r ti ve f or an inc red ib le sl ee p. ”
WE ARE NEW ZEALAND MADE
improved night of rest on our newest Posture Lux bed. Incorporated with soft Himate Latex which have hypo-allergenic properties and have a breathability. This plush, flexible material provides spinal support in layers of Slumberzone’s unique Durafoam®. Finished with designer technology.
The Anti-Bug treatment attacks mite populations in two ways: by acting as a contact repellent, forcing mites to move away from treated areas, and by inhibiting the growth of natural food sources such as moulds and bacteria. The Posture Lux provides superior protection, as well as a luxurious sleep.
55 Longhurst Terrace, Cashmere, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand
Contact: Bruce Moore
T: +64 3 332 8899
E: bruce@bma.co.nz www.propress.co.nz 2/ 18 Arklow Lane, Stanmore Bay, Auckland 0932, New Zealand
Contact: Sean Paterson
E: sean@sapsltd.nz
M: +64 210 230 4235 www.sapsltd.nz
Auckland
Contact: Vikram Nagpal
T: +64 9 277 4557
E: commercial@slumberzone.co.nz www.slumberzone.co.nz
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34-36 Honan Place, Avondale
Auckland 0604, New Zealand
Contact: Kayla Wheat T: +64 9 828 1079
E: sales@titanfurniture.co.nz www.titanfurniture.co.nz
Procurement & Hotel Design Specialists
57 Customs Street East, Auckland Central, Level 2, Auckland, Region, 1010, New Zealand
Contact: Rezharco Doria T: 093792479
E: reg@y6.co.nz www.y6.co.nz
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