Visitor information centres across Otago are keen to hear from people with rooms, a flat or a home available to people homeless after the Christchurch quake.
Information centre staff at Dunedin, Queenstown, Wanaka, Oamaru, Balclutha, Alexandra, Cromwell, and Ranfurly i-Sites have received requests to compile a "bed bank" for those affected by the latest quake.
Dunedin Visitor Centre team leader Louise Van De Vlierd said the information centre had been asked by Civil Defence to serve as the main point of contact for accommodation in the city, including private and commercial accommodation providers.
Hotels, motels and B&B operators were contacting the i-Site to advise them of accommodation availability.
The visitor centre was receiving many inquiries from tourists who had been planning on visiting Christchurch, or leaving from there.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council and i-Site Queenstown were co-ordinating offers of accommodation from those with holiday homes or spare rooms.
Destination Queenstown was working with New Zealand Hotel Council Queenstown chairwoman Penny Clark, Tourism New Zealand, Lake Wanaka Tourism and Destination Fiordland to help domestic and international visitors in Christchurch obtain alternative accommodation.
