Pania's Pānui

NZ Māori Tourism staff and Board members will be in Northland next week for our quarterly Board meeting. The Board and I are looking forward to catching up with many of you while we are there.

An email has been sent to Members outlining how to vote in the upcoming Board election. If you have not received this, please call Lee on 04 474 4682.

Nga mihi, na,

Pania and the team at NZ Māori Tourism

Budget 2017 Announcements

The Government have announced their Tourism Infrastructure package:

Tourism Infrastructure package Q & A
Tourism Infrastructure Fund criteria, panel, and process.

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

He Tohu is a new permanent exhibition of three iconic constitutional documents that shape Aotearoa New Zealand.

It lives at the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa in a stunning new state-of-the-art conservation space, designed to preserve the documents for generations to come. The documents are:

• 1835 He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni – Declaration of Independence of the United Tribes of New Zealand
• 1840 Te Tiriti o Waitangi – Treaty of Waitangi
• 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition – Te Petihana Whakamana Pōti Wahine

He Tohu whānau day

10.00am to 4.00pm, Saturday 20 May (tomorrow), Free
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets

The public opening day of He Tohu is on Saturday 20 May, when the National Library and Archives New Zealand will run a programme of family-friendly activities. The day includes presentations, exhibition tours, the Amazing Travelling Photo Booth, and special guests Julian and Christian Dennison.

Te Nama o te wiki (Number of the week)

Strong growth in international visitor numbers and spending is forecast for New Zealand's tourism sector, with international visitors projected to spend $15.3 billion annually by 2023, according to the New Zealand Tourism Forecasts 2017-2023.

Highlights from the Tourism Forecasts 2017-2023 include

- International visitor arrivals to New Zealand are forecast to reach 4.9 million visitors a year in 2023 (from 3.5 million in 2016, up 39 per cent), equating to a growth rate of 4.8 per cent per year.

- Total annual international spend is forecast to reach $15.3 billion in 2023 (from 10 billion in 2016, up 52.1 per cent), equating to a growth rate of 6.2 per cent per year.

- China is expected to become New Zealand's largest tourism market by spend during the forecast period, and to reach $4.3 billion annually by 2023. Visitor numbers are expected to reach just under one million annually by the end of the forecast period.

- China is expected to contribute to 37 per cent of total international visitor growth from 2016 to 2023, and 51 per cent of total visitor spending.

- Australia is forecast to remain the largest source of visitor arrivals over the forecast period, contributing 1.8 million annual visitors to New Zealand by 2023, up 25 per cent from 2016.

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.

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.

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