Tourism Industry Blog

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

Rob Grieve describes a recent visit to Samoa written from the perspective of being an inbound tour operator with some useful insights into what you could expect if including Samoa as part of an itinerary for clients.

With the future looking bright for the China outbound travel market to continually grow it makes sense for New Zealand tourism organisations to develop strategies to target the China travel market

Vote in our poll on whether we should combine resources with Australian tourism from time to time for particular campaigns and markets.

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.

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…

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?

Foursquare, the latest new and free location-based social media tool based on mobile device use that is taking off. Is it useful for tourism businesses and destination marketing?

New Zealand is well positioned in the world of Adventure Tourism – but every so often we are reminded of it’s risks when a tourist in New Zealand suffers serious injuries or even death by undertaking one of these experiences.