Tourism Electronic Card Transactions
8 August 2025
MBIE
This release of the Tourism Electronic Card Transactions (TECTs) data marks the final update to this dataset. No further updates or releases will be made moving forward.
MBIE is currently procuring a new data set to replace the TECT as a permanent measure of tourism spending.
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.