Tourism Industry Blog

“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.

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!

Selling your Tourism Business? Read some useful advice from Melissa Teesdale from Tourism Properties on selling tourism real estate in the current market.

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.

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

The TRENZBlog has posted some recent interviews with our tourism leaders John Key, Kevin Bowler and Tim Cossar so we thought we’d help share them with you.

If you followed the TRENZ Blog in 2009 you are probably already on to it again for 2010. For those who didn’t, the blog is back online for 2010 and written by Ruth Atherley from AHA Creative in Canada.

Once you’ve been in business for a while and created a successful tourism venture, you may be wondering what’s next? Creating new and exciting tourism products with a partner tourism operator can one way to ensure long term success.

The announcement yesterday by the PM John Key of an additional $30 million for tourism marketing for the next 12 months budget has quickly attracted a lot of welcome comments from around the industry.