On June 4 three separate groups of male tourists were punched and pushed to the ground by two males. Several of the victims had suspected broken noses.
Four men were treated for facial injuries. One was an overseas tourist, another was a Queenstown resident and two were visitors from Invercargill.
Graham Junior Steen (31), of Christchurch, and Phillip James Rasmussen (28), of Timaru, appeared before Judge Kevin Phillips, in the Invercargill District Court on Tuesday in relation to the assaults.
They did not enter a plea and no bail application was made. They are due to reappear in the Queenstown District Court on Monday.
Labour Tourism spokesman Kelvin Davis welcomed news arrests had been made in relation to the assaults in the resort, and a similar incident which occurred recently in Northland, but said more "bashings" could occur if the Government did not help the tourism industry to educate New Zealand communities and tourists about "shared values".
Mr Davis said the Government needed to resource the industry to educate tourists and New Zealand communities about "core values of kaitiakitanga and manaakitanga".
"Kaitiakitanga means caring for the environment, and both tourists and New Zealanders from the Government down can learn how to care for our country.
"Manaakitanga means hospitality.
"We need to learn how to care for our guests and tourists need to learn not to trample on the mana of Kiwi communities."
Mr Davis said tensions were "brewing" in at least one Northland community, after locals had been "abused by tourists and rubbish and effluent from freedom campers has been dumped on roadsides".
"If this situation continues, then the chances are that we'll hear of more tourist bashings.
"With 65,000 visitors expected at next year's Rugby World Cup, our country cannot afford to have tourists return home saying New Zealanders are an abusive people," Mr Davis said.
Mr Everitt said while last week's incident in Queenstown was "certainly an unfortunate incident" and was "not the kind of thing we like to see", it needed to be put in context.
"We have about 1.7 million visitors to Queenstown a year. It's hopefully a relatively isolated incident when you look at that in context.
"At this stage we haven't detected any negative impact in our markets as a result of that.
"It's unfortunate, but it is perhaps an isolated incident."
Mr Everitt said Destination Queenstown was delighted the Government had provided a $30 million budget boost to promote New Zealand in international markets, but he did not believe it was necessary to ask for more money to educate people on how to behave.
