Tourists spent a record $4.7 billion in New Zealand last year, according to figures released today by Tourism New Zealand.
The tally represented a 22.4 per cent or an $873 million increase on the year ended December 1999.
The average spend per tourist per visit rose by 11.1 per cent, or around $300.
Japanese visitors spent the most per visitor, leaving nearly $5,000 in New Zealand per tourist per visit in 2000, an increase of 20 per cent from 1999.
German tourists are spent fifty per cent more than in 1999; the average spend per visitor reached $3957 for the 2000 year.
Australians remained the biggest contributor overall, spending $857 million per visitor in New Zealand in 2000.
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