Kaikōura District supports wildlife tours, seafood work and construction beyond one town street. ChatGPT practice can turn a fictional booking table into clear questions for the operator who controls the schedule.3,5,7,8,14,15
Out of every 100 working people in Kaikoura District, 59 are in office, management or sales roles.
New Zealand: 64 in office, management or sales roles, 9 people-facing, 27 hands-on, out of every 100.
5 findings from Stats NZ data for Kaikoura District, and what each means for ChatGPT training.
That is more than the national 16.2%. Owners get the quickest return: quotes, emails, social posts and bookkeeping questions, sorted in minutes.
30 out of 100
self-employed or employers
New Zealand 16.2%
Remote sessions fit how people here already work.
27 out of 100
Mainly worked from home, census day 2023
New Zealand 17.7%
85 out of 100
Households with internet access
New Zealand 90.5%
59.3% of employed residents in Kaikoura District work in desk-based roles, against 63.6% across New Zealand. The difference is mostly labourers: 13.1% of employed residents here, against 9.0% nationally. Most people here work with their hands, so ChatGPT helps most with the jobs around the job: quotes, replies to customers, rosters and the paperwork owners do at night.
| Per 100 workers | Chart | Kaikoura District | NZ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Managers | 26 | 18 | |
| Professionals | 16 | 27 | |
| Technicians and trades workers | 13 | 13 | |
| Community and personal service workers | 10 | 9 | |
| Clerical and administrative workers | 9 | 11 | |
| Sales workers | 8 | 8 | |
| Machinery operators and drivers | 5 | 6 | |
| Labourers | 13 | 9 |
Out of every 100 jobs in Kaikoura District, 26 are in hospitality (7 nationally). We shape examples around the work that is actually here.
| Industry | Chart | Kaikoura District | NZ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 25.8% | 7.2% | |
| Retail | 14.0% | 9.3% | |
| Transport and warehousing | 10.1% | 4.2% | |
| Construction | 9.1% | 8.2% | |
| Farming, forestry, fishing | 8.5% | 4.8% | |
| Education | 7.7% | 8.5% |
Growth of 3.5% in five years, against 9.6% growth nationally. Health and social care added the most jobs (+30). Construction lost the most (−45). New businesses are often setting up their systems from scratch, which is a good moment to build AI into them.
| Industry | Chart | 2020 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health and social care | 90 | 120 | +30 | |
| Hospitality | 390 | 410 | +20 | |
| Arts and recreation | 33 | 43 | +10 | |
| Construction | 190 | 145 | −45 | |
| Farming, forestry, fishing | 175 | 135 | −40 | |
| Manufacturing | 56 | 18 | −38 |
Kaikōura is the one town in Kaikoura District with 1,000+ residents; its page has its own brief.
| Town | Residents | Desk-based | Chart | Business locations | Since 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaikōura | 2,320 | 57.5% | 402 | +1.5% | |
| New Zealand | 4,993,923 | 63.6% | 654,435 | +9.6% |
The out-of-every-100 district employment view reflects the weight of visitor services. It cannot tell a team whether local businesses use ChatGPT.1,3,5,7,8,14,15
Participants could practise with safe booking and project records, then trace each answer to an approved source.3,5,7,8,14,15
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Dolphin Encounter and Whale Watch each publish visitor-facing marine-tour information for Kaikōura guests. A marketing lead can use deep research in a ChatGPT Project to collect public guidance relevant to marine-tour visitors and prepare a source-linked checklist for review. The operator confirms the advice against its own current access and service details before publishing anything.5,8,15
A 2025 Kaikōura pāua report covered a recreational season and recovery management; it can anchor an exercise in distinguishing current notices from older reporting. A seafood or visitor-services team can use ChatGPT Business deep research to assemble public fishery notices and prepare a dated source list for human review. Staff verify current rules with the issuing authority before using the material with customers or crew.1,16
Kaikōura's district chart lists 111 construction business units, and the Wakatu Quay project provides a local example of built-environment work. A small contractor can use ChatGPT Business data analysis on synthetic or approved project data to compare workload, milestone dates and resource assumptions. A qualified manager checks the calculations and uses them as planning prompts rather than commitments.3,5,7,8,14,15
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Local research checked 29 September 2026. Population and business figures come from Stats NZ.
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