Rich Chinese families to cover around $25k-a-day for luxury Kiwi travel packages

Wealthy Chinese families will undoubtedly be charged around $25,each day for luxury travel packages featuring chauffeured limousines 000, private fishing and vineyard tours and exclusive helicopter transfers to lavish Kiwi venues.

The high-end itineraries includes tickets to the country’s most exclusive lunch and accommodation venues.

NZ Chinese Travel and Tourism Association chair Simon Cheung said the tours aimed to greatly help push New Zealand as a premier destination to Chinese visitors through the NZ-China Year of Tourism 2019, that was first announced during the official visit from Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in 2017.

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A fall in the brand new Zealand dollar contrary to the Chinese yuan in addition has boosted spending by Chinese tourists, that is up 14 % to a lot more than $1.year 6 billion in the last.

Simon Cheung, chair of the NZ Chinese Travel and Tourism Association, golfing at Te Hihi Estate. Photo / Brett Phibbs

Cheung said the weaker kiwi dollar – which fell 9 % contrary to the yuan last quarter – was also making more Chinese see New Zealand as a “affordability” destination.

“We must move from the cheap shopping tours that currently dominate the inbound Chinese market, because these benefit no-one except maybe the airlines really,” Cheung said.

“Tourism in China is huge, the marketplace is booming, and the low dollar means we are able to do more to create New Zealand a particular place for luxury Chinese travellers.”

One of the exclusive accommodation venues on offer to VIP Chinese travellers may be the Te Hihi Estate in Karaka – that was used by Kiwi rich lister Eric Watson.

Guests are certain to get exclusive usage of the six-bedroom villa, and 92 acres of designed grounds which includes a nine-hole course thoughtfully, swimming pool, out-door access and spa to a resident alpaca herd.

Cheung said the blissful luxury itineraries — that could cost around $25,each day for a family group of four &mdash 000; were being finalised now, year of tourism and will be ready with time for the 2019.

The itineraries could possibly be personally tailored for the visiting families’ needs.

The association, which represents a lot more than 200 local Chinese providers and operators, month in a bid to weed out rouge operators would also be starting a licensing regime next.

Currently a lot more than 100,every year on group tours 000 Chinese visitors come here, but a growing number are arriving as free independent travellers.

The Chinese market is moving towards slightly longer trips, and the ones arriving for one-to-two weeks and four-to-six days up 26.4 % and 23.2 % respectively.

Resident alpaca herd at Te Hihi Estate, Karaka, South Auckland. Photo / Brett Phibbs

This year, Year holidays in February new Zealand may be the third hottest holiday destination for Chinese new, behind Australia and Thailand, in line with the Huron Chinese Luxury Traveller 2018 report.

But a NZ Story Perceptions Research report – “So how exactly does China see New Zealand” – found the Chinese considered Aotearoa to be second far better Australia, that is perceived to provide everything we do and much more.

“The itineraries will play on New Zealand’s strengths, such as for example purity, nature, kiwi and lifestyle hospitality, that is what research found these quality value tourists want,” Cheung says.

“We can not contend with Australia or Thailand in shopping, nor do you want to.”

Dishes such as this Crayfish paella by Bellota on Federal St, Auckland, could be on the menu for wealthy Chinese visitors. Photo / File

Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis has announced that the state China-NZ Year of Tourism opening ceremony will undoubtedly be held at Te Papa on February 20 next year, hosted by the China National Tourism Office.

Davis said the function will be a fantastic chance of New Zealand to showcase why is it a global class destination and for Kiwis to take into account “how exactly we can best welcome Chinese people to our shores”.

About 453,000 Chinese people visited New Zealand within the last 12 months, which is forecasted to improve to 800,000 by 2024.

The amount of visitors arriving direct from China can be up 13 % due to a rise in direct flights, and the ones arriving via Australia fell 3 %.

Ministry of Business, Employment and innovation is forecasting that China will overtake Australia by spend, reaching just over $3b annually by 2024.

Richard Davies, MBIE’s tourism policy manager, said the target for the entire year of tourism wasn’t to acquire a big lift of Chinese visitor numbers.

“We’re centered on attracting high-value visitors,” Davies said.

“By ‘high value’ we don’t just mean visitors who save money, we want individuals who come beyond that peak summer months and explore our regions.”

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