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Immigration NZ has a new Immigration visa fact sheet – Nov 2015

New Zealand’s most photographed Church needs industry help! Visitor numbers to the Church of the Good Shepherd have reached 300,000 per annum and there are issues […]

Half of international visitors still using inbound tour operators for travel Research conducted by Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development and the Tourism Export Council New […]

INTERNATIONAL DRIVERS INFORMATION The Tourism Export Council (TEC) with the Rental Vehicle Association (RVA) two years ago started the process of looking at visiting international driving […]

WHY LEARNING MANDARIN AND OTHER LANGUAGES ARE IMPORTANT TO NEW ZEALAND   China is the largest outbound international visitor market with more than 100 million per […]

PRESIDENT MARTIN HORGAN – TOURISM EXPORT COUNCIL CONFERENCE SPEECH 2015 Firstly I want to congratulate you all on what has been an excellent year of success […]

YOUNG TEC EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER! The Tourism Export Council of New Zealand announced Monday 17 August at the National Tourism Conference awards event held at Larnach […]

Top tour operators recognised by industry Three of New Zealand’s top operators have been recognised as the best in the business by their industry peers at […]

IS THE SKYCITY CONVENTION CENTRE OUR CATHEDRAL BUILDING PROJECT? (Opinion piece) It is with utter surprise and dismay that in recent weeks I am reading the […]

INSIDE TOURISM – ARTICLE 19 November 2014 G20 TOURISM’S NEW FRONTIERS REPORT The CEO of Tourism Export Council, Lesley Immink last week attended the G20 Tourism […]

Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland is happy to announce that we have recently been named one of the 20 Most Surreal Places to visit in the World by […]

SAVE THE DATES!           Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 August 2015  Congratulations to Enterprise Dunedin who were successful with their bid to host the 2015 Tourism […]

Released at the Tourism Conference 2014 was the new guide on “how to work with a New Zealand Inbound Tour Operator”. The “Planning for Inbound Success” […]

INAUGURAL YOUNG TEC EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER! The Tourism Export Council of New Zealand announced today at the national tourism conference awards event held at the Claudelands […]

Top tour operators recognised by industry Two of New Zealand’s top operators have been recognised as the best in the business by their industry peers at […]

(Auckland, New Zealand) Tourism Radio (http://www.tourismradio.co.nz) is fully committed to ensuring self-drive visitors to New Zealand get the best safety information available, as soon as they […]

The Tourism Export Council and TIA have recently submitted to Immigration New Zealand suggestions to add more tourism and hospitality related positions to the Essential Skills […]

Tourism Export Council supports the Tourism 2025 framework Chief Executive of the Tourism Export Council, Lesley Immink, congratulates Martin Snedden and the project team on Tourism […]

TOURISM BUSINESS MAGAZINE – JAN/FEB 2014 Being the start of the year it is an opportune time to indicate the priorities for the Tourism Export Council […]

Big benefits are set to come to Hamilton Waikato after it was announced the region will host the 2014 Tourism Export Council Conference. A review of […]

INSIDE TOURISM – EXPORT MATTERS Christchurch and Canterbury Tourism (CCT) recently hosted the Tourism Export Council Board meeting and the Board stayed on for a day […]

A huge congratulations to Brett, Jason and the Auckland ATEED team and Jim from West Coast for their recognition of being in the top 10 best […]

INSIDE TOURISM – CHOOSE SUCCESS OVER APATHY! CEO of the Tourism Export Council Lesley Immink welcomes the NTP and believes that any naysayers of “we’ve been […]

TOURISM BUSINESS MAGAZINE – The recent Tourism Export Council Conference held in Masterton was a great forum to gather consensus on two very important issues. The […]

INSIDE TOURISM – CONFERENCE 2013 REPORT Chief Executive of the Tourism Export CounciI, Lesley Immink was absolutely rapt with how well the delegates received our keynote speakers […]

INSIDE TOURISM – PRESIDENT’S REPORT “Environment” I’ve never seen myself as a greenie and thought I’d be the last person trying to convey environment messages.  But […]

NEW INDUSTRY AWARD FOR YOUNG TEC RISING STARS! The Tourism Export Council of New Zealand announced today at the national tourism conference held at the Copthorne […]

TOURISM BUSINESS MAGAZINE – Tourism Succession Planning with Young TEC   With the rebrand of ITOC to the Tourism Export Council last year, a new “youth […]

NAU MAI MAGAZINE July 2013 Business first then culture for successful Māori tourism operators  For Māori tourism businesses to succeed they need to focus on business […]

Preparations for the annual Tourism Export Council Conference 20 -23 August 2013 in Masterton are well underway with the Destination Wairarapa team keen to make it […]