Where to stay in New Zealand
17,233 hotels, motels, hostels, B&Bs and holiday parks across 13 regions, compiled from open data.
Of the 89,375 venues we hold across New Zealand, 17,233 are places to stay — 19% of the total. They break down as 4,289 hotels, 2,062 motels, 1,250 b&bs and guest houses, 264 hostels, 1,845 serviced apartments and 7,523 holiday parks and campgrounds.
Distribution is heavily uneven. Québec alone holds 3,040 of them — 18% of the national total — and the top three regions (Québec, Ontario and British Columbia) account for 48% between them. The thinnest is Northwest Territories with 59. Averaged across the 6,205 named places we hold, that is 2.8 per town — a figure almost no individual town matches, because the median settlement has a handful and the cities have hundreds.
Accommodation is distributed quite differently from eating places. It concentrates where visitors go rather than where people live, which is why Québec and the tourist regions carry a share out of proportion to their population, and why the ratio of beds to cafés is one of the more revealing numbers on any town page.
On data quality: 172 publish opening hours (1%), 7,457 list a website (43%), and 451 record step-free access (3%). 16 carry at least six recorded attributes, which is the bar a venue has to clear before we give it a page of its own — 0% of the total. The rest are listed on their town pages. Every gap is an unrecorded attribute rather than a known absence, because all of this comes from open data: OpenStreetMap for the venues themselves, public registers for verification. Nothing here is scraped from a commercial directory, and no venue has paid to appear or to rank.