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It\u2019s a slow post-Covid recovery for tourism, despite last year's surge in overseas arrivals.\xa0

Stats NZ reports that 2.96 million people visited in the year to December, more than 1.5 million up from 2022. \xa0

However, it still falls short of 2019's 3.89 million arrivals. \xa0

Tourism Industry Aotearoa\u2019s CEO Rebecca Ingram told Mike Hosking that these numbers aren\u2019t surprising, as they expected to be at about 80%.\xa0

While the numbers themselves are important, another factor they look at is value.\xa0

Ingram said that the industry is happy with how the summer is going, and visitors seem to be spending more than before.\xa0

In the year to September 2023, $11.1 billion was spent on travel services, well up from $4.4 billion the year before.\xa0

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