{"id":643575,"date":"2026-10-28T07:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T07:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643575\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T07:50:16","slug":"christchurch-events-deliver-record-107-million-economic-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643575\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch events deliver record $107 million economic boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christchurch\u2019s events industry is booming, delivering a record $107 million economic boost to the region, with the new One New Zealand Stadium helping drive the growth.<\/p>\n<p>Christchurch City Council owned Venues \u014ctautahi has reported an estimated $106.99 million in direct and indirect economic benefits for the 2025\/26 financial year, compared with $41.8 million the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The result includes just 10 weeks of the new stadium\u2019s operation, with its first full financial year still to come.<\/p>\n<p>Across its venues, the organisation hosted 474 events, attracting 933,962 attendees, up from 408 events and 718,443 attendees the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Venues \u014ctautahi Chief Executive Caroline Harvie-Teare said the stadium had fundamentally changed the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne NZ Stadium provided the most significant test of our guest experience capability in the company\u2019s history. Within weeks of opening, the venue transitioned into high-volume operation across major sport, entertainment, premium hospitality, corporate and community modes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40406\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40406 lazyload\" alt=\"Venues O\u0304tautahi Chief Executive Caroline Harvie-Teare\" width=\"746\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Venues-Otautahi-Chief-Executive-Caroline-Harvie-Teare.jpeg\" data-eio-rwidth=\"746\" data-eio-rheight=\"497\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-40406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venues O\u0304tautahi Chief Executive Caroline Harvie-Teare<\/p>\n<p>The stadium welcomed 249,191 people across 35 events during its opening 10 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Christchurch Town Hall remained the busiest venue by event numbers, hosting 290 events, while Wolfbrook Arena attracted the largest individual venue attendance, with 301,488 guests.<\/p>\n<p>Apollo Projects Stadium welcomed 117,460 people during its final year, with Hagley Oval and the Air Force Museum also contributing to the overall figures.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation recorded earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of $4.16 million, beating its budget by $5.06 million.<\/p>\n<p>It also confirmed it would no longer require operational funding from Christchurch City Council for its venues.<\/p>\n<p>Local suppliers shared in the success, with 83 percent of food served sourced from Canterbury and 73 percent of contractors based in the region, generating $13.71 million in direct economic activity.<\/p>\n<p>Harvie-Teare said the benefits reached well beyond the venues themselves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49060\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49060 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_4447-1.jpeg\"  data-max-width=\"1200\" data- data-eio-rwidth=\"1200\" data-eio-rheight=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-49060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: One NZ Stadium<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt permeates throughout our region activating hotels, restaurants, bars, transport providers, retailers, food producers, suppliers, contractors, boosting the wider visitor economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organisation\u2019s workforce grew to 849 during the financial year and has since reached 933, including 819 casual employees.<\/p>\n<p>Of those casual workers, 58 percent are aged between 15 and 24.<\/p>\n<p>Venues \u014ctautahi also provided $201,000 in community discounts across 57 events.<\/p>\n<p>May was its busiest month, with 58 events attracting 181,610 people.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Harvie-Teare said there was considerable potential for further growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christchurch\u2019s events industry is booming, delivering a record $107 million economic boost to the region, with the new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,373,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-643575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-featured","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}