Pania's Pānui

Nei ra te mihi ki te Kāwanatanga hōu i raro i te maru o nga pati e rua, ko Reipa me Aotearoa Tuatahi, otira ki o matou Minita ko Nanaia, Te Minita Whanaketanga Māori me Kelvin, Te Minita Tāpoi Whanui. Karawhiua!

All members of the NZ Maori Tourism Society are invited to the Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Māori Tourism Society:
Date: Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Time: 12:30pm
Venue: Wharewaka Function Centre, 2 Taranaki Street, Wellington
R.S.V.P:lee@maoritourism.co.nz, +64 4 474 4682

Please advise attendance for catering purposes and any dietary requirements.
Lunch will be served at 12:00pm prior to the AGM.

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)

Tourism expenditure grew in most regions over the year to September 2017. Key points:

· The regions with the fastest growing tourism spend over the year to September 2017 were West Coast, which increased 14 per cent to $544 million, followed by Tasman (up 14 per cent to $315 million) and Southland (up 10 per cent to $623 million).

· West Coast tourism was supported by strong international spend, with the USA market increasing 30 per cent to $52 million and the German market increasing 35 per cent to $40 million compared with the year ending September 2016.

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 Minister: the coming border levy, work visas, and advocating for a Ministry

Labour’s promised $25 border levy, money from the new $1bn regional fund, working with industry on immigration and work visas, and the possible return of a Ministry, are all on the agenda for the new Minister of Tourism.

Kelvin Davis says it is still early days with the details of many of Labour’s plans for the sector to be formulated but one thing is clear – the border levy will be implemented to provide $75m in annual funding for tourism.

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.

Māori culture takes over Santa Monica Pier

It's been the scene of Hollywood movies, now Māori culture has taken over the Santa Monica Pier with a breathtaking kapa haka performance.

The display, set against the backdrop of the Pacific Ocean, was part of events surrounding Tuku Iho | Living Legacy, which opened at Venice Beach's Rose Room on Monday.

The exhibition is looking to replicate its runaway success in Washington DC earlier this year, which saw more than 250,000 people visit the exhibition and more than a million more engaging with it on social media.

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

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.

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.