Tourism Industry Blog

The Trade Me Travel team have now announced they are bringing accommodation booking opportunities into their main Trade Me auction site with a Travel section.

“If You Do Nothing, Nothing Will Happen”. I love this saying, never a truer word spoken, and it can be applied to just about anything in life and business – tourism marketing is no exception…

Tourism operators in New Zealand tend to either embrace or loath Qualmark. Here’s your chance to express your views on it to help out the new General Manager of Qualmark.

Marc Krisjanous of New Zealand Business Blogs has just released a Facebook for Business eBook which contains over 130 pages of hints/tips for using Facebook as a communication and branding tool for your business.

As a follow on from the Channel Management Options article, here is a useful summary from Mike Ford about the benefits of using a channel manager for accommodation providers and what the future holds.

A voting poll to find out what Social Media tools businesses are typically using on a regular basis

One of the biggest concerns for accommodation providers when wanting to sell their rooms online is how to avoid double bookings when selling live “realtime” inventory across multiple booking channel websites.

A request from Les Probert for your best travel tips in an effort to publish an ebook titled “100 best travel tips”. Give him a hand!

Are you controlling your marketing dollar? Today’s tourism marketing mix offers a seemingly complex and costly selection of ingredients. Simon McManus provides a useful list to help cook up the perfect recipe.

Melissa Teesdale provides an introduction and business tips from Rafting New Zealand, inspiring Maori Entrepreneurs in our community.