Weekly hotel results: NZ market enters autumn with RevPAR up nearly 20%

13th March 2026 By Staff Reporter | news@propertyticker.co.nz | @propertyticker

In partnership with global accommodation benchmarking company STR, the Ticker publishes a weekly update tracking the performance of New Zealand’s hotel sector.

New Zealand’s hotel sector has started autumn in decent shape, according to figures from STR.

For the first week of March, occupancy and average daily rate were up 10% and 8% respectively compared to the same time last year.

That has seen revenue per available room at the hotels that supply data to STR to jump 19.2% to $238.39.

In comparison with the week of 2-8 March 2025, New Zealand recorded for the week of 1-7 March 2026: 

• An occupancy increase of 10.3% to 86.2%
• Average daily rate (ADR) up 8.1% to $276.67
• Revenue per available room (RevPAR) up 19.2% to $238.39

The main southern markets of Queenstown and Christchurch led RevPAR growth last week, up 23.5% to $323.75 and 31.7% to $233.04 respectively, compared to the same period last year. 

STR collects daily accommodation data from 44% of all hotel rooms in New Zealand, including 70% of all rooms in Auckland, 67% of all rooms in Queenstown, 52% of all rooms in Christchurch, and 50% of all rooms at Wellington hotels.