Hamilton Gardens is unlike anywhere else in the world; a living museum that tells a story of cultures and civilisation through 18 stunning, themed gardens.
Step back 4,000 years into Ancient Egypt, follow te ara whakataukii (the path of proverbs) to the world’s only traditional productive Maaori garden, and lose yourself in the dreamlike Surrealist Garden where nothing is as it seems.
Join one of our friendly, knowledgeable guides on a 75-minute Highlights Tour to travel through these iconic gardens on a journey of unexpected stories, hidden symbols, interesting snippets, and fascinating insights. Or plot your own path and let the gardens speak to you with our engaging audio guide. Both are available in English or Mandarin Chinese.
If you’re someone with ATTITUDE come to the Tourism Conference 26/27 August and hear from Justin Herald who down to his last $50 in his pocket, but alot of attitude, turned a simple t-shirt into a multi million dollar company.
A warm welcome to our new members! We look forward to helping you learn more about tourism trade and the growing your business!
WHITE ISLAND TOURS Key contact: Patrick O’Sullivan email: marketing@whiteisland.co.nz
JLT INSURANCE Key contact: Deb Fisher email: deb.fisher@jlt.co.nz
STAYWELL GROUP Key contact: Melanie Ranoa email: mranoa@staywellgroup.co.nz
MOTEL ASSN NZ Key contact: Michael Baines email: michael@manz.co.nz
KOHUTAPU LODGE Key contact: Nadine Toetoe email: bookings@kohutapulodge.co.nz
HIKE BIKE AKO Key contact: Robyn Manuel email: robyn@hikebikeako.co.nz
ECOZIP ADVENTURES Key contact: Gavin Oliver email: gavin@ecozip.co.nz
EcoZip Adventures are the operators of a zipline (or flying-fox) adventure tourism enterprise on Waiheke Island. Three dual ziplines, each over 200m in length, fly visitors first over our working vineyard and then above a beautiful canopy of centuries-old native New Zealand forest.
Hi folks – last year at the 2013 Tourism Conference, Chris Flynn from PATA did an excellent presentation on Russia and Brazil. Here is the presentation. Chris Flynn, PATA & Russia ppt
Culturally owned and operated!
A lake edge lodge offering overnight accommodation off the beaten track in a beautiful unspoilt corner of New Zealand. Guided cultural tours, traditional food (hangi and indigenous gourmet BBQ) along with a number of other activities, including: hunting and fishing, waka paddling, night time eeling, cooking classes, weaving, boat and kayak hire. School marae visits into our community can also be arranged.
(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 get behind the wheel. The company made the statement following reports in recent weeks about a number of road accidents involving foreign drivers.
Tourism Radio CEO Hayden Braddock says the travel guide producer has already proven itself well suited to the task at hand, “We’ve worked closely with the New Zealand Transport Agency to send out various road safety messages to our users, and from the feedback we’ve received, more than 90% of those users found these messages useful.”
“After a long flight across multiple time zones,” says Braddock, “foreign drivers will understandably be fatigued when getting into a vehicle. That’s where Tourism Radio comes in; our partnerships with key players in the motorhome and car rental industry position us as the ‘first line of defence’; providing users with vital safety information as they are driving.”
Tourism Radio distributes bespoke in-car audio tour guide devices to motorhome and car rental clients across New Zealand, and the company has also developed a range of audio travel guide apps for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. The uniqueness of the company’s guide technology is in its ability to seamlessly arrange thousands of audio clips into a contextually-relevant dialogue, providing an intuitive safety information system to a captive audience when it matters most.
Braddock maintains there’s no better way to get the safety message across, “When a user approaches a busy highway intersection, for example, our technology knows where the user is, and knows in which direction they are travelling. We are therefore able to warn them to give way to oncoming traffic well ahead of the intersection itself, alerting them to slow down and be aware of their surroundings.”
For more information about Tourism Radio’s existing road safety efforts, visit their websites: http://www.travelguideapps.co.nz and http://www.tourismradio.co.nz, or contact them on +64 9 475 6537.
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 in Demand Review – 16 May 2014 shortage list.
Young TEC has come of age and has it’s own collection of website pages. Check out the new pages, images and ‘like’ their facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/youngtourismexportcouncil
Budget Rent a Car and Avis Rent a Car have committed to support TravelSafe NZ to help ensure their clients safety and welfare.
“We see TravelSafe NZ as an extremely valuable tool, that not only informs people of travel hazards and possible disruptions, but also provides international travellers with valuable driving tips while travelling around New Zealand,” says Managing Director Avis Budget Group Kathryn O’Neil.
