NewsLine, 21 April 2017

Pania's Pānui

NZ Māori Tourism attended the opening of the QRC Culinary School in Kerikeri this week. We have worked with QRC on both the Taitokerau Resort College and the Culinary School as the opportunities they provide for rangatahi to study, have paid internships, and work in the tourism industry in both Northland and further afield are huge.

Due to the term expiry of one of our Board members, full members of NZ Māori Tourism should have received their voting information for the 2017 Board vacancy this week by email. We have engaged Electionz to run the online process, so the information on nominations and voting will be sent to you from iro@electionz.com. If you haven't received this, please email or phone Lee Beazley on 04 474 4682

As always, if there is anything you need help with for your Māori tourism business, we are merely a phone call or email away.

Nga mihi, na,

Pania and the team at NZ Māori Tourism

Photos from L:R: NZ Māori Tourism Chairperson Dale Stephens speaks at the opening of the QRC Culinary School, QRC Chairman Sir Eion Edgar and NZ Māori Tourism Chief Executive Pania Tyson-Nathan cut the cake at the opening, a QRC student being interviewed by Māori Television at the opening of the QR Culinary School.

Te Nama o te wiki (Number of the week)

More than 20,000 manuhiri are expected to visit New Zealand this winter for the British and Irish Lions Tour. NZ Māori Tourism worked alongside Sports NZ and the Rugby Festival to highlight Māori tourism experiences centered around the regions where games will be played.

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?)

For those affected by recent flooding, some banks are offering flood relief packages, including deferred credit card & mortgage payments. Contact your bank to see if you are eligible for their flood relief package.

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.

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.

Export Essentials Workshops

The programme includes two full-day workshops, run by experienced private-sector advisors in partnership with NZTE. These workshops will give you the tools and confidence to select the right market, the right channel and the right partner, helping you to understand the pathway to export success.

After the workshops you’ll get a complimentary 90-minute individual session with the advisor to identify key next steps and areas to work on.

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.

NZTE’s new Foundation customer experience

NZTE have officially launched their new Foundation customer experience. They are:

Introducing a new way of working with Foundation customers (operating model), aligned to a customer’s exporting journey.
Launching their refreshed website, with new tools and resources for customers.
Launching a new Export Essentials service (guides and workshops) to give emerging exporters access to the fundamentals.
Beginning a new era of increased openness and transparency about what we offer, how customers can access our services, segmentation and criteria

NZTE have refreshed their website. It is now more customer-centric, easier to navigate, and features a wider range of practical tools and resources for customers including 30 refreshed market guides.

To better support earlier stage exporters, NZTE are also launching a new service – Export Essentials, which is designed to provide customers with the core fundamentals of exporting and includes face-to-face workshops and online guides.

The latest edition of Māori Tourism Quarterly can be read 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.

Department of Conservation
Thirty years ago, on 1 April 1987, the Department of Conservation (DOC) was born. To celebrate, they have been sharing stories and photos of 30 years of DOC

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.