Pania's Pānui

I oho tātou i te ata nei ki te tētehi Kāwanatanga hōu. Me mihi ka tika ki a rātou, nga pāti tōrangapū, ko Reipa, ko nga Kākāriki rātou ko Aotearoa Tuatahi. Na rātou te Kāwanatanga hōu i kōkiritia. Harikoa ana mātou ki te mahi ngātahi ki te Kāwangatanga hōu. A tōna wa, ka mōhio ko wai nga Minita hōu.

Hope you have a wonderful long weekend - the first one in a few months, and much needed!

Ngā mihi, na,
Pania and the team at NZ Māori Tourism

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.

Te nama o te wiki (Number of the week)

222,000 cruise ship passengers visited New Zealand in the June 2017 year.

Fifty per cent of all cruise ship passengers to New Zealand were Australian citizens, while 18 per cent were United States citizens, and nine per cent were citizens of the United Kingdom. New Zealanders made up seven per cent of cruise ship passengers.

Three quarters of cruise ship passengers to New Zealand were aged 50-79 in the June 2017 year, with the median age of 65.

The World Indigenous Tourism Summit will be held in Paihia, Northland 15-17 April. Save the date in your calendar now, and click here for further details.

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.

Tourism Export Council ‘Xmas Symposium’

Register now for the Tourism Export Council's Xmas Symposium, featuring updates from tourism leaders and networking opportunities. The Xmas Symposium will be held at Skycity Convention Centre, Auckland, on Wednesday 6 December.

Tourism Summit Aotearoa

TIA’s Tourism Summit Aotearoa is the largest national annual event that brings together business and government leaders from all sectors of New Zealand’s big and fast-growing tourism industry.

The 2017 Tourism Summit Aotearoa will challenge your thinking and encourage you to push the boundaries, so you’ll be prepared to meet the future head on. Featuring a stimulating mix of international and local speakers, this is your opportunity to keep up to date with important developments and ask industry leaders the hard questions.

We will discuss how we can improve the New Zealand tourism industry’s competitive advantage. Learn from international experts, hear about new thinking to encourage growth, and discover the future of ambitious digital technologies and marketing.

Northland kid wanted for starring movie role

Wanted for a starring role: A cheeky yet respectful Northland kid. Must be Maori, aged 11-13, but can be a boy or girl. Has to be outdoorsy and know how to milk a cow.

Those, in short, are the requirements for the lead child actor in a feature-length movie to be shot in Northland next year.

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

Epic plans to boost tourism industry

A 3D virtual reality experience that would give visitors to Gisborne “an epic ocean voyage” in a giant waka simulator is being proposed as part of a series of ambitious plans to help boost the region’s tourism industry.

Speaking on the final day of the Activate Tairawhiti Tourism Conference, marketing consultant Roger MacDonnell — the lead researcher behind the new Tairawhiti-Gisborne regional marketing campaign — said while the campaign was very much a “work in progress”, there were a range of plans for this year and 2018. There were also a series of possible future “concepts”, including the waka hourua simulator, that would be considered.

Watch this short video as Stuart Dillon-Roberts from Digital Journey, Paul Macpherson and Sai Honig from Xero, and Steve McCabe from PwC give practical cyber security tips to help keep your business safe online.

Workshop - Negotiating with Germans

Come along and learn (more) about Germany as a country to do business with and what factors can make or break your approach to a German company.

Alongside our Kiwi guest speaker Murray Whyte (Co-founder and Director, Avid.legal) who has worked in the legal profession in Germany, German-Kiwi 'hybrid' Monique Surges (CEO, GNZCC) will cover the topic of Negotiating with Germans in an interactive and thought-provoking way.

When: 26th October 2017, 9.30 am – 11.30am

Where: Level 5, 15 Willeston St, Wellington

For more information and to register please click 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.