Regional Tourism Indicators (RTI)The Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment have released the Regional Tourism Indicators (RTI) for June 2015. The RTI are based on electronic card transaction data and provide regular updates on both international and domestic tourism expenditure at a regional level. Read more here.
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Jetstar execs return to BayJetstar has announced its executives will return to Hawke's Bay to make further considerations about potential new destinations. Jetstar is also considering flight paths to Hamilton, Rotorua, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Nelson and Invercargill.
Read more here.
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The traveller trumps the cowIt's time for the tourist bus to overtake the dairy tanker. Dairying has been bringing in about $13.7 billion annually (and dropping), while the tourism industry is at around $10.3 billion - and rising. Our economy has had a good ride on the back of the cow, but as the happy days for dairy draw to an end,
we need to get behind the tourism industry - it's time to hitch our wagon to the modern traveller. Read more here.
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Māori words and phrases of the day: TravelThe New Zealand Herald, in collaboration with Māori Television and the Māori Language Commission, is marking New Zealand's 40th Maori Language Week with Māori words and phrases for a different theme each day: today is travel. Read more here.
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Te Wiki o Te Reo MāoriTo celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, Mana magazine put together the following short video, featuring George Henare and Jennifer Ward-Lealand speaking Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 in both Te Reo and English. We think it's quite neat, hopefully you will too!
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