Where to stay in New Zealand
26,699 hotels, motels, hostels, B&Bs and holiday parks across 36 regions, compiled from open data.
Of the 78,070 venues we hold across New Zealand, 26,699 are places to stay — 34% of the total. They break down as 13,603 hotels, 592 motels, 4,782 b&bs and guest houses, 4,993 hostels, 1,502 serviced apartments and 1,227 holiday parks and campgrounds.
Distribution is heavily uneven. Kerala alone holds 5,952 of them — 22% of the national total — and the top three regions (Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu) account for 38% between them. The thinnest is Lakshadweep with 3. Averaged across the 12,254 named places we hold, that is 2.2 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 Kerala 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: 581 publish opening hours (2%), 2,049 list a website (8%), and 263 record step-free access (1%). 15 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.