The country's hotels are reporting their best occupancy rates in a decade, during 2014.

76 percent of available room nights were sold, and the average rate per night was up by five dollars.

Sally Attfield of the Tourism Industry Association Hotel says it was a record year.

"This will certainly encourage investment in the sector and adds value to the New Zealand economy with both job employment and foreign exchange earnings, profitability improvement and return for owners and operators," she says.