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…

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.

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.

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

There are plenty of choices in the market for accommodation operators in selecting an online booking system. The decision on which you choose will come down to a few key areas relevant to your business.

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.

We asked some of our contributors to come up with personality traits of a successful tourism operator, have look at what you think you achieve and others that you can try to do better, or get help with.

Let’s face it, the nature of travel means that it’s quite common for travellers to have to change their bookings. Yet there still seems to be some inflexible and ludicrous fees applied – particularly with airlines.

The BIG thing for a tourism business is your product or service offered, like the motel room or the rafting trip or the flight to Queenstown. But it can be all the LITTLE things that make the difference between your business and your competitors.