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Freedom camping working group
18 April 2018
Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis has announced the members of the working group that will work to develop solutions to freedom camping issues.
SkyCity pledges to pay $20 minimum wage by 2020
27 March 2018
SkyCity Entertainment Group has unveiled plans to pay its New Zealand-based staff at least $20 an hour by 2020; a move that will significantly increase the take-home pay of around 1750 people in Auckland, Hamilton, and Queenstown.
eXplore Show 2018 expected to deliver for the travel trade
20 March 2018
Hadley Dryden, chairperson of eXplore Central North Island, says this years eXplore Show will be "an absolute boomer”.
TIA: Golden Bay tourism businesses urged to apply for relief fund
16 March 2018
Golden Bay tourism businesses are being encouraged to apply to the Government’s new relief fund for those adversely affected by the damage to Takaka Hill Road caused by Cyclone Gita.

Lessons from a winning tourism business
28 January 2016
Facing limited revenue growth and increased customer expectations the flagship Rotorua tourism company invested, innovated, gave itself a major shake-up and did it so well it was awarded the Air New Zealand Supreme Tourism Industry Award 2015.
Hobbit fever
25 January 2013
As one tourism service provider quipped in late November when asked how things were going: “A bit flat still, but The Hobbit will save us all...” And that does seems to be the big hope out there.
2012 The Year of ...
24 December 2011
Lawrence Smith suggests tourism operators consider an adaptive approach to marketing in 2012. One which allows for change and assimilation of new technologies and trends. Here, he outlines some of the trends.
Rubgy World Cup Visitor Survey
24 December 2010
A recent survey of RWC2011 visitors is hugely useful in helping tourism operators plan for the influx.

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