Pania's Pānui

At a business lunch held for Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Auckland this week, the Premier was visibly moved by the display of the special relationship between Māori and Chinese, especially when Ngā Puna o Waiorea sung a Chinese waiata. We continue to grow relationships with China, as Kauahi Ngapora from Whale Watch Kaikoura talks about in this story from Māori Television from the lunch.

A key announcement from his visit was the 2019 China-New Zealand Year of Tourism.

As always, if there is anything you need help with for your Māori tourism business, we are merely a phone call or email away.

Nga 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)

There were just over 1,800,000 holiday visitors in 2016, accounting for 52% of all visitors to New Zealand. The percentage of holiday visitors was the same in 2016 as it was in 2000.

The number of holiday visitors in 2016 was just over 16% higher than in 2015, which in turn was 14% higher than in 2014. Overall between 2012 and 2016, the number of
holiday visitors increased by 56%.

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

Tourism expenditure grew in all regions over the year to February 2017, according to the latest Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates released by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).

The fastest growing regions were Nelson and West Coast, which both increased by 11 per cent to $342 million and $496 million respectively in the year ending February 2017. Spending in both Northland and Tasman also grew strongly at 10 per cent, to $1.06 billion and $298 million respectively.

The 2018 WINTA Summit will be held in association with NZ Māori Tourism. The Summit will be held in Paihia, Northland, from 15 - 18 April 2018. Save the dates in your calendar now! More details will be released soon.

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.

Taking Care of Business Roadshow 2017

The roadshows bring together experts from different government agencies to explain the support available for business and answer business-people’s questions.

Small Business Minister Jacqui Dean is attending the roadshows, along with representatives from agencies including MBIE, ACC, Stats NZ, Inland Revenue, the Ministry for Primary Industries and Te Puni Kōkiri.

Te Manu Atatū Māori Business Awards

Te Manu Atatū Māori Business Network supports the growth and development of new, emerging and established Māori businesses in the wider Whanganui region and surrounding Iwi boundaries. Te Manu Atatū Māori Business Awards is a great opportunity to showcase Māori business excellence. The network encourages all local Māori businesses to apply and join with us to celebrate the success of Māori in business.

Te Manu Atatū Māori Business Awards (Black tie) Whanganui
Saturday 1 July 2017 5.30pm

How to enter: Email tmawhanganui@gmail.com or pick up your entry form from TPK, 357 Victoria Avenue, Whanganui, or download your form from their Facebook page.

Business on the DOC estate

Commercial operators and businesses require a permit to access public conservation land and this is done through DOC’s concession process. Learn more about concessions here.

To interact with or handle wildlife and marine mammals, or use public conservation land other than for personal recreation, you need authorisation from DOC. If you’re not sure which research or wildlife authorisation you need, try their decision-making tool.

Regional Business Partner Network

The Regional Business Partner Network helps New Zealand businesses innovate and grow by making it easier to access early stage business support. The network is made up of 14 Regional Business Partners throughout New Zealand and is supported by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) and Callaghan Innovation.

They can help you:
- gain outside perspective from an independent, experienced business advisor in a confidential environment
- identify the next steps for your business
- connect you with the local business community, industry networks and clusters.
- match you with a mentor from Business Mentors NZ
- provide access to Capability Development vouchers
- provide access to research and development (R&D) funding.

Online tools to help small business owners

Business owners can use the Workplace Policy Builder to create policies on flexible work, IT and social media and leave and holidays.

All the policies in the tool comply with current law, and users can choose to be updated if there are any relevant law changes that impact the policies they have created for their business.

This tool gives business owners all the information they need.

Business Calendar

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

The latest edition of Māori Tourism Quarterly can be read here.

Nga Pānui (Notices) from members of NZ Māori Tourism

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.

KURA Auckland
Downtown Auckland is-a-changing and we are adapting to the new scene down here.
Kura is moving to 95A Customs Street West - next to Portofino and the fabulous Viaduct Restaurant Hub and we are looking forward to setting up our new gallery and mixing it with our new-to-be-neighbours. We are excited about creating new opportunities to promote all of our amazing artists and artworks and look forward to sharing our journey with you. We will be moving over the next month but in the meantime it will be business as usual in our current space until we open our new space on Monday 24th April 2017!

Inside Tourism
More than 6,000 industry employees including international and national industry associations, Ministers of the Crown and corporate CEOs have been relying on Inside Tourism for their source of NZ tourism news and views for the past 23 years. IT, as it is affectionately known, is the only reliable and independent weekly publication devoted to travel, tourism, hospitality, aviation - and Māori tourism in particular. Editor Nigel Coventry is a former Pacific Asia Travel Association Journalist of the Year. Contact: nigel@insidetourism.com or visit www.insidetourism.com