The Coromandel is facing yet another long weekend of cancelled hospitality bookings.

Last weekend, it had a subdued Auckland Anniversary weekend due to flooding in Auckland and the Coromandel itself being cut off due to the wet weather's impact on its roads.

In the weeks prior, weather events such as ex-tropical Cyclone Hale also left the normally booming tourist hotspot eerily quiet.

Yesterday, Thames-Coromandel mayor Len Salt declared a pre-emptive declaration of emergency.

"We have an unfolding situation with vulnerable communities, vulnerable people and an emerging situation where we have the potential for land slips and further erosion that we need to manage."

With the myriad of weather events, Anchor Lodge manager Sue Gill-Devereux says the hospitality sector has barely functioned in Coromandel since Christmas.

Waitangi weekend looks to be nearly as quiet.

Sue says she was initially fully booked, but "now I've had probably 80 to 90 per cent of bookings cancel or postpone".

She believes it would reach closer to 100 per cent cancelled or postponed bookings.

Sue says other moteliers she has spoken to in the Coromandel are also empty.

The Coromandel has suffered so extensively, they are not making money this summer, she says.

"Our summer season is what gets us through until the next spring summer season."

They need to work hard at this time of year to make enough to keep them going for 12 months, she says.

Hospitality New Zealand chief executive Julie White says for moteliers it's important to make hay while the sun shined.

But when the sun doesn't come out, it means they can't make revenue, she says.

Julie says some members she has spoken to in the region are reconsidering their future.

"It's all just too hard after Covid and some are thinking about should they permanently shut."

Many hospitality businesses have previously reported that this summer is the first they were expecting bookings to resemble normality after Covid restrictions.

With a huge landslide cutting into State Highway 25A, a major highway in and out of Coromandel, the additional impact it has on hospitality also remains to be seen.

-RNZ.