Tourism Industry Blog

If you want to become an inbound operator creating itineraries for overseas clients coming to New Zealand, then you’ll find some good tips from Jeremy Zinzan to help you on your way.

To varying degrees local government around New Zealand are involved in tourism development. Currently a topical issue, what do you think about how much they should be involved? Comment or vote in the poll.

The advent of mobile travel applications for smart phones and iPhone apps is obviously an exciting new direction for travellers and the tourism industry. But how far off is it before it becomes a key way to book and pay for travel?

Some useful tips from Jeremy Zinzan on how to work out if your website is well optimised with meta tags and how to do your own basic search engine optimisation to rank better in Google.

Rob Grieve from Kiwi does it describes why they have chosen to be a sustainable business achieving carboNZero certification and how he’d like to get his tourism industry partners to do the same…

Entries are now open for the 2010 Tourism Awards which have been revamped to seek “an innovation focus” from entrants.

The new TV ad for the “There’s nothing like Australia” campaign has been released and is already causing plenty of negative feedback from the Australia public – what do you think?