2016-04
Infometrics April newsletter
April 2016
NEWSLETTER
This month’s newsletter takes a close look at infrastructure in our regions.
Benje Patterson presents the case for embracing private accommodation as part of the solution to alleviating accommodation shortages in visitor hotspots.
Gareth Kiernan delves deep into infrastructure spending to find where firms involved in the provision and construction of infrastructure should put their focus.
The newsletter ends with a quick look at our new small area profiles of towns and communities within your local area, before questioning whether New Zealanders are getting a fair deal from the big oil companies..
Don’t just build hotels, embrace private accommodation
With capacity constraints in the commercial accommodation sector biting, it is time that private accommodation provision is embraced as part of solution to managing peak load in the tourism sector. This article quantifies the scale of the private accommodation resource and why the public sector is failing to take it seriously.
Understanding small parts of local economies
Territorial authority level data can often mask vast differences in fortunes of towns and communities within districts. For this reason, we have developed small area profiles that give decision makers in the provinces the ability to get detailed economic and social insights of each small area within their jurisdiction.