Successful Māori stage show tours BeijingChinese audiences are expected to be wowed for the first time in Beijing by a highly acclaimed Māori stage show touring there this month. The Atamira Dance Company are taking their successful show - Moko - to the highly esteemed Beijing Dance Festival. The tour comes after it
premiered just over a year ago at Sky City Theatre, to rave reviews. Read more here.
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Did Polynesian Explorers Discover America?Ancient Polynesian voyagers may have reached North and South America 492 years before Christopher Columbus. Watch the short video here.
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The New Zealand Travel, Holiday & Adventure Expo, Auckland, August 2015DM Events & Promotions are proud to announce The New Zealand Travel, Holiday & Adventure Expo, New Zealand's largest holiday expo. What better way to find and book your next travel, holiday or adventure requirements than visit The New Zealand Travel, Holiday & Adventure Expo. The Cloud located on Auckland's Viaduct is the chosen venue for this inaugural event in the heart of Auckland's CBD. Read more and register here.
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The explosive growth in Chinese spending on tourism, in one stunning chartCourtesy of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, the chart below shows Chinese outbound tourism spending compared to other G20 nations such as the US, Germany, UK, Russia and Australia. Read more here.
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Tourist tax to fix budget holesCharges and taxes on tourists coming to Rotorua and other regional cities could be used to plug budget deficits, says a review of local government funding. Other suggestions include the creation of "special zones" to test ideas for economic growth, and a call to simplify the process for applying for rates rebates. Point nine of the review will "allow councils to levy specific charges and taxes on visitors where economically efficient". Read more here.
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Visitor arrivals set to reach 3 million a yearIn the latest international travel and migration figures from Statistics New Zealand, visitor arrivals reached record levels for June, up 9 percent from the same period last year. It brought the total for the June 2015 year to 2.99 million, up 7 percent from 2014. Tourism New
Zealand chief executive Kevin Bowler said this time next year, annual arrivals would be well over 3 million, with the coming summer looking set to be even busier than this year's. Read more here.
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International Visitor Arrivals to New Zealand: June 2015International Visitor Arrivals to New Zealand is a monthly report that includes detailed tables and graphs of monthly and annual data showing the number and characteristics of visitor arrivals. Visitor arrival data comes from Statistics NZ's International Travel and Migration dataset. This dataset is derived from information contained in electronic records supplied by the New Zealand Customs
Service, as well as from arrival and departure cards completed by passengers. Read the report here.
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Could pop up hotels be the next big accom trend? Dutch company Flexotels has invented collapsible hotel rooms equipped with bathroom facilities that could be taking over the festival and event market next summer. The fold-out rooms have a shower, hot water heater, toilet and sink to provide event participants, visitors and personnel with more convenient shelter.
Read more here.
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