Regional tourism organisation boundaries are meshblock based and were created by dissolving groupings of ward and territorial authority areas. This version of regional tourism organisation boundaries extends to the 12-mile limit. Regional tourism organisations are responsible for the promotion of their regions to prospective domestic and international visitors. This version has been developed with input from Regional Tourism New Zealand.
RTO label represents the trading name of the organisation responsible for a region’s tourism marketing and/or economic development. The label is provided with and without tohutō/macrons for ease of data processing.
Note: Not all 39 categories representing regional tourism organisation areas are currently operating as regional tourism organisations at the time of publishing. Those areas not operating as regional tourism organisations are: South Waikato, Kawerau, Rangitīkei, Tararua, Horowhenua, Ashburton and Waimate.
Fiordland includes Fiordland National Park, Manapouri, Te Anau, and Te Anau Downs areas with the rest of the area assigned to Southland. Where a regional tourism organisation area boundary crossed a meshblock the meshblock was assigned to whichever regional tourism organisation area the majority of the meshblock fell within.
The classification relating to this version can be viewed and downloaded from the Stats NZ classifications management system Ariā: Regional Tourism Organisation Areas V5.0.0.
Names are provided with and without tohutō/macrons. The name field without macrons is suffixed ‘ascii’.
