Pania's Pānui

It's been two weeks since we farewelled our manuhiri that came to Northland for the World Indigenous Tourism Summit. We have had some incredible feedback from attendees, and are aware of several new projects that are underway as a result of new relationships and ideas formed at the Summit!

The number of indigenous businesses that attended from around the globe was outstanding, and it was great that the NZ Māori Tourism team (staff and board) were able to catch up with many of the Māori tourism businesses that were in Northland for the three day Summit and the Research Symposium in Hopuhopu.

You can check out photos of the Summit here. We are in the process of uploading all the presentations onto our website, we will let you all know when they are available to view.

As we know, manaakitanga is at the forefront of everything we do, so on behalf of NZ Māori Tourism can I say a huge thank you to everyone that was involved in the Summit, whether it was a speaker, delegate, famil experience, volunteer, catering, entertainment, worker, transport provider, contractor, accommodation, host or organiser. While many of our international and local manuhiri may have arrived in Waitangi, Aotearoa as strangers, they have certainly all left as members of our whanau!

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.

Congratulations

A huge congratulations to Neill and Ceillhe Sperath from TIME Unlimited Tours who won the Tamaki Makaurau National MWDI Māori Business Award. TIME Unlimited take manuhiri on a wonderful journey through Tamaki Makaurau and throughout Aotearoa.

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Wetini Mitai-Ngatai has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit this week. The kapa haka innovator and business entrepreneur has been recognised for services to Māori performing arts.

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Congratulations to all the nominees and finalists in the Māori Business Awards being held tonight in Auckland. Award categories are outstanding Māori business leader, Māori women business leader, young Māori business leader (under 35), Māori governance leader, Māori entrepreneurial leader, and outstanding Māori business leadership (for organisations).

Te nama o te wiki (Number of the week)

A record 3.82 million visitors stepped onto New Zealand shores in the March 2018 year, Stats NZ said this week. New Zealand has seen an increasing number of overseas visitors for the last five years, from 2.61 million in the March 2013 year. For the five years before 2013, there were around 2.5 million visitors a year.

Over the last five years the main sources of our visitors have been Australia, China, the United States, and the United Kingdom, in that order. In the March 2018 year, 39 percent of visitors came from one of our closest neighbours, Australia, followed by China (11 percent), the United States (9 percent), and the United Kingdom (7 percent).

YoungTEC’s Professional Development Programme (PDP)

The ultimate aim of the PDP is to provide tourism trade training which supports young tourism professionals in their tourism career path, and facilitate a mentoring programme where they can learn from senior tourism experts.

Even if you have done this programme before, we encourage you to sign up again. The proposed programme has some excellent guest speakers covering a diverse range of topics relevant in today’s marketplace and we have recruited mentors spanning across a variety of tourism businesses who are ready to support and enhance your experience.

For sessions you can’t attend in person we will be using Facebook live technology to enable you to attend ‘remotely’, viewing on any smart device – either in real time or at a later date. The YoungTEC execs in each region not hosting that week will organise meet ups on these Tuesdays so participants can watch together and discuss the key outtakes.

Registered participants will be given login access to a restricted area of the YoungTEC website where all recordings, audio files and presentation assets will be accessible. More details will be provided after you sign up.

The cost is $150 + GST per person for all registered YoungTEC members.

The eight-week course kicks off on Tuesday 5 June with sessions each concurrent Tuesday evening, concluding on Tuesday 24 July. Email the form to young@tourismexportcouncil.org.nz along with any other queries you have.

Henare te Ua Māori Journalism Internship

The Henare te Ua Māori Journalism Internship is a paid twelve month position at RNZ for a Māori graduate who is passionate about journalism, with strong te reo knowledge, who is able to assist in reflecting and reporting issues of significance to Te Ao Māori. The graduate will work alongside RNZ news staff researching, reporting, writing and presenting news and current affairs stories.

The internship recognises the outstanding veteran Māori broadcaster Henare te Ua (Ngati Porou) whose career spanned four decades. His ability to easily move between English and Māori, his leadership and remarkable communication skills marked him as an exceptional broadcaster. He provides an inspiration for this internship.

RNZ will consider applicants who do not possess a qualification but someone who wants to practice the craft of journalism and tell stories that explore and reflect Te Ao Māori. Find out more and apply here

TIA’s Discussing Tourism events

These one-day events provide an important forum for you to discuss the issues, challenges and opportunities facing tourism businesses, as well as connecting with industry leaders. Go to www.discussing.org.nz for further details and to register

Join a thought provoking day with a mix of speakers, panel discussion and audience participation. The day focuses on three key areas:

Why we should care about sustainability
Sharing your thoughts on what tourism should look like in the future
How we can improve public understanding of our industry

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