NewsLine, 28 April 2017

Pania's Pānui

As we start to pull our wool coats and boots from the back of the wardrobe (although that could just be Wellington!) and haere ra our summer, it is timely to reflect on the last few months. Now is a great time to check and update your business listings on relevant websites (your RTO, Tourism NZ, AA, and of course NZ Māori Tourism's!) It's also a good idea to get in touch with industry organisations to let us know how your business found the season, any issues that arose that we could possibly help with, and of course your success stories!

There are a lot of training and networking opportunities that will take place around the country over the next few months for owners, managers, employers and employees. We will continue to highlight these opportunities in NewsLine, as well as on our website.

As mentioned last week, full members of NZ Māori Tourism should have received their nomination and voting information by email for the upcoming Board vacancy. If you haven't received this, please let us know.

Nga mihi, na,

Pania and the team at NZ Māori Tourism

Te Nama o te wiki (Number of the week)

Tourism expenditure grew in all regions over the year to March 2017, according to the latest Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates released by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) this week.

The fastest growing region was the West Coast, which increased 11 per cent to $522 million in the year ending March 2017, followed by Nelson (up 10 per cent to $343 million) and Tasman (up 10 per cent to $303 million).

Spending has increased in all regions over the year to March 2017 with most regions also seeing a growth in spending in the month of March, compared with the same month last year.

PS - Is your Māori tourism experience listed on our website? If not, reply to this email and we'll get your business listed straight away.

Kei te mōhio rānei koe? (Did you know?)

Inside Tourism spoke with several Māori tourism experiences for their special report into Māori tourism this week. Read what they had to say here.

The 2018 WINTA Summit will be held in association with NZ Māori Tourism. The Summit will be held in Paihia, Northland, from 15 - 18 April 2018. Save the dates in your calendar now! More details will be released soon.

Below are a selection of recent Instagram posts from around Aoteaora New Zealand using the hashtag #kiaora - we encourage manuhiri (visitors) to use #kiaora to showcase their experience with Māori tourism.

Aotearoa Hunt Nation

In 2012 Daryn Te Uamairangi from Atene and Koroniti Marae and Chris Kumeroa (both former Military), from Parikino, Pungarehu, Koroniti, Matahiwi, Otoko Marae developed a concept of implementing a hunting and food festival programme that would kindle and foster the opportunity to have inter-generational hunting back onto Maori and other land blocks, farms within the Whanganui Region. The intent was have our older generation share knowledge of the more traditional foods gathered to those respective hunting groups and participants and would look to broaden awareness of what they are to a wider ethnic audience and event goers. This would be a key driver in developing a simple community marae based project that would effectively bring people back to the marae and onto the whenua and support a fund raising activity.

Business Calendar

Use this tool to quickly find opportunities, training, compliance dates and related tasks from across government. You can search by region, date, and category.

The latest edition of Māori Tourism Quarterly can be read here.

NZ Music Month Event with a Māori Language Focus

Takitimu Karanga for NZ Music Month celebrating our mums on Mothers Day!

Sunday 14th May 2017
2.00pm - 5.00pm
Mahora Room, Te Wharewaka
Wellington
*Entry by koha

RSVP essential: waahuu@xtra.co.nz
(by 5pm, Wednesday 10 May, 2017).

Calling for Entries to the Cathay Pacific Travel Media Awards

The supreme winners of the Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year and Cathay Pacific Travel Photographer of the Year awards will each receive double tickets to the vibrant and cosmopolitan city Tel Aviv travelling courtesy of Cathay Pacific Airways.

The deadline for entering is Friday 12 May.

Winners will be announced at the Gala Dinner at Heritage Hotel, Auckland, to be held on Friday 21 July. Enter here.

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.

Lions Tour 2017
The Rugby 2017 Festival follows the matches from Host City to Host City, and gives you the chance to meet the people, see the sights and taste the flavours of our place. On the field the rivalry and traditions will play out, but between matches seek out the best of New Zealand and get close to what makes this country so special. We’ll be adding more great stuff to the programme right up until kick-off so keep checking or download the app to stay up with the play.