Pania's Pānui I can't be the only who is wondering how we are already mid-way through February - Christmas seems like a distant memory! Like many of you, we have had limited staff over the last few weeks but we're now back to full capacity. It was fabulous to catch up with many of you in Waitangi recently - especially to hear that so many of you are attending the World Indigenous Tourism Summit in Northland in April. We have a fantastic line up of speakers, workshop sessions, networking events, and panel discussions for you. If you haven't registered yet, you still have time! Ngā mihi, na, Pania and the team at NZ Māori Tourism Kei te mōhio rānei koe? (Did you know?) From April 2018, small businesses, sole traders and contractors can choose a new pay-as-you-earn option, rather than paying provisional tax in instalments several times a year. What: Inland Revenue is introducing the Accounting Income Method (AIM) so your business can pay tax as you earn profit. Your accounting software will calculate how much tax to pay for each filing period — monthly or two-monthly. When: April 2018 Why: So small businesses can pay provisional tax based on their cash flow, rather than the previous year’s earnings or estimated earnings for the current year. “Small businesses have always disliked the uncertainty of provisional tax. They have had to pay based on what they earned last year, or based on what they think they’ll earn in the current year,” says Greg James, deputy commissioner of Inland Revenue. “Paying provisional tax as they earn profit will give them much more certainty about cash flow.” Te nama o te wiki (Number of the week) Guest nights continued to increase in December 2017, up 4 percent from December 2016, Stats NZ said today. Registrations Open for the World Indigenous Tourism Summit! We look forward to welcoming you to the World Indigenous Tourism Summit and hosting you at the Copthorne Bay of Islands, Aotearoa New Zealand, 15-18 April 2018. Tourism Export Council Conference The Hawke's Bay, a region renowned for good weather, art deco, food and wine, will be hosting this year's Tourism Export Council
Conference on 8-9 August 2018. Minimum wage rises by 75c on 1 April 2018 The minimum wage is going up from $15.75 to $16.50 per hour. Here’s what you’ll need to know for your business. The new minimum wage rates are:
Starting-out and training minimum wages are 80% of the adult minimum wage. Check out the world's first AR-enabled Māori alphabet colouring bookStories about efforts to save Te Reo Māori and pass it on to a new generation are nothing new. This story is different. This is the story of how augmented reality (AR) could preserve – and help grow – a language. In other words: new things preserving old things. Aotearoa start-up Titan Ideas has launched an augmented reality (AR) app, called Zippy's 3D Colouring App, that takes kids on adventures through educational cultural stories. Ok, so by itself that might not be earth-shatteringly newsworthy. But consider this: it’s the world’s first AR-enabled Māori alphabet colouring "book." The race to become the next Great Walk is on A multi-day walk on Mt Taranaki could join Milford, Routeburn and Heaphy tracks on the list of internationally renowned Great Walks within New Zealand's national parks. A proposal from economic development agency Venture Taranaki a include the three to four day walking route in Egmont National Park, at a cost of $7.1 million, has been included on a shortlist to choose two new Great Walks. The Mt Taranaki proposal was among 30 suggested routes - 20 in the North Island and 10 in the South Island - submitted to a seven person independent panel, representing Federated Mountain Clubs, New Zealand Recreation Association, New Zealand Māori Tourism, Tourism New Zealand, Air New Zealand, Tourism Industry Aotearoa, and the Department of Conservation to consider in December. Tourism Data Domain Plan - Stakholder Workshop The purpose of the Tourism Data Domain Plan is to achieve clarity and agreement from government and industry stakeholders about the main priorities for tourism statistics, and provide the strategy for addressing these priorities over the next five to eight years. It is intended that the 2018 Domain Plan will give: • A long-term picture of what is required to improve official statistics • A coordinated plan for addressing data issues • A cross-agency approach to long-term priorities · A framework for determining the highest priority information needs. Attending a workshop will ensure you, and your organisation’s, views are heard as we work towards a plan for determining the highest priorities for tourism statistics and how tourism statistics and data can be improved. We are seeking feedback from tourism industry and government stakeholders. Workshops will be held in Wellington, Christchurch, Queenstown, Dunedin, Auckland, and Rotorua in March. Attendance is free. For further information, please email TR_SharedMailbox@mbie.govt.nz Te Hono ki Aotearoa Ahead of the New Zealand Festival opening night waka odyssey on Wellington Harbour, the National Library, Toi Māori and the Dutch Embassy have come together to present a film tracing an extraordinary intercultural partnership. Te Kono ki Aotearoa follows the journey of a waka taua hewn from a 600 year old Kauri and ceremonially gifted, on permanent loan, to the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden, Holland. Nga Pānui (Notices)If you have an announcement you'd like here, please email amy@maoritourism.co.nz for it to be included in the next edition of Newsline. It can be anything from a job position, exhibition opening, videos or photos featuring your business, new Māori tourism products, etc. |