Tourism Industry Blog

This case study highlights that a combination of small town community spirit and proactive tourism businesses is the perfect mix of ingredients to create something special to impress visitors.

Visuals are a great tool for piquing your customers’ interest. Simon Lenoir offers some tips on the types of images you should be using on your website to promote tourism tours or activities

With the continuing growth of online bookings for the travel market, Simon Lenoir offers some key advice and tips for activity and tour operators when considering options for an online booking system

James Hacon provides a pretty convincing list of reasons why as a tourism business you should offer free WIFI access for customers…

James Hacon shares how attractions and activities can gain more business through accommodation providers with a case study to look at how packaging can encourage accommodation providers to sell your product.

This is not a blog post about taping boxes or wrapping parcels – instead James Hacon offers some hints about packaging your tourism product with others and how this can benefit 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.

An article based on anecdotal evidence of 12 years in the ecotourism industry as a guide with some useful points to consider about what Ecotourists want from tourism products.

Research by the Ministry of Tourism shows that a growing number of kiwi travellers are actively using the internet as a key medium for booking their accommodation and activities in New Zealand.

Welcome to the new Tourism Industry Blog, a community of tourism industry contributors who write articles to benefit all tourism industry organisations, businesses and operators throughout New Zealand.