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Perspectives: Sustainable tourism needs community co-governance, not short-sighted politics 12th September 2023 /

Perspectives: Sustainable tourism needs community co-governance, not short-sighted politics

Where there are issues, it is not often tourism itself but the management of it that needs to be addressed.


Election 2023: TIA’s Ingram on investing for the long game 8th September 2023 / /

Election 2023: TIA’s Ingram on investing for the long game

Tourism needs investment to sustain its economic contribution and social, cultural, and environmental goals – not govt cuts – writes TIA’s Rebecca Ingram.


Election 2023: “Dirt kicked in the face of every part of tourism not high end” – BYATA’s Marriner 8th September 2023 / /

Election 2023: “Dirt kicked in the face of every part of tourism not high end” – BYATA’s Marriner

The country’s major political parties are making ambiguous tourism promises but Labour’s fixation on ‘high value’ could be detrimental to the youth and hostel sector, writes BYATA chair Haydn Marriner.


Perspectives: An undeniable trend – NZ is underinvesting in tourism 7th September 2023 /

Perspectives: An undeniable trend – NZ is underinvesting in tourism

NZ needs to invest properly in tourism and not de-fund agencies like Tourism NZ.


Perspectives: Managed response to extreme weather crucial for events industry 6th September 2023 /

Perspectives: Managed response to extreme weather crucial for events industry

Festival organisers need to be able to manage their response to extreme weather events as summers are increasingly plagued by flooding and heatwaves.


Perspectives: Rising global temperatures are already affecting tourism 17th August 2023 /

Perspectives: Rising global temperatures are already affecting tourism

Tourism is crucial to many economies but climate change is putting parts of the industry at risk.


An Operator’s View: Active Adventures’ Wendy van Lieshout 14th August 2023 /

An Operator’s View: Active Adventures’ Wendy van Lieshout

The NZ and US operator’s CEO on recovery, business priorities, M&A and the Queenstown-based company’s global opportunity.


Perspectives: Wildfires have hit Maui’s tourism economy hard, but there’s hope in recovery 14th August 2023 /

Perspectives: Wildfires have hit Maui’s tourism economy hard, but there’s hope in recovery

Despite the terrible toll and severe damage, people’s livelihoods can be restored.


Perspectives: TECNZ’s Mehrtens on rethinking the future of tourism 10th August 2023 /

Perspectives: TECNZ’s Mehrtens on rethinking the future of tourism

The pandemic may be in the rearview mirror but for many in tourism challenges remain, says Tourism Export Council of New Zealand chair Scott Mehrtens.


An Operator’s View: PurePods’ Stephanie Hassall 7th August 2023 /

An Operator’s View: PurePods’ Stephanie Hassall

The CEO on the company’s biggest season ever, expansion, Covid’s lingering impact and agritourism opportunities.


Perspectives: How hotels, tourists can work together to decarbonise travel 3rd August 2023 /

Perspectives: How hotels, tourists can work together to decarbonise travel

Empowering hospitality entrepreneurs to pursue sustainable practices can help reshape tourism.


An Operator’s View: Larnach Castle’s Norcombe Barker 31st July 2023 /

An Operator’s View: Larnach Castle’s Norcombe Barker

The attraction’s MD on the neverending work at the “big maintenance project”, new product, and frustration over DMPs and governance.


An Operator’s View: Rotorua Canopy Tours’ Paul Button 18th July 2023 /

An Operator’s View: Rotorua Canopy Tours’ Paul Button

The GM on the operator’s best year ever for revenue, managing pricing and costs, and what he wants to get off his chest.


Perspectives: Can airlines hiring clothes out help make tourism more sustainable? 11th July 2023 /

Perspectives: Can airlines hiring clothes out help make tourism more sustainable?

Japan Airlines is launching a new clothing rental service called Any Wear, Anywhere, which it claims can help reduce aircraft emissions, writes EcoWatch’s Cristen Hemingway Jaynes for the World Economic Forum.


Perspectives: NZ tourism faces up to 10k rental vehicle shortage this summer 10th July 2023 /

Perspectives: NZ tourism faces up to 10k rental vehicle shortage this summer

The sector will only be able to add around 15k vehicles this year, leaving many unable to rent the car they want.


Wednesday Letter:  Developing our tourism workforce requires action 28th June 2023 /

Wednesday Letter: Developing our tourism workforce requires action

Universities help build future leaders and bring global perspectives and new thinking to tourism.


Perspectives: Titan disaster highlights dangers of frontier tourism – what could it mean for industry? 23rd June 2023 /

Perspectives: Titan disaster highlights dangers of frontier tourism – what could it mean for industry?

The Titan submersible disaster demonstrates the unpredictability of frontier tourism and its unintended consequences, as well as what could happen if industry does not respond in the right way.


Perspectives: Airline performance is beating expectations but challenges remain 6th June 2023 /

Perspectives: Airline performance is beating expectations but challenges remain

Margins are wafer thin, inflation continues, there are labour shortages and cost pressures but airlines are proving resilient.


Perspectives: 70 years ago today, Mt Everest was conquered – now, mass mountaineering must be addressed 29th May 2023 /

Perspectives: 70 years ago today, Mt Everest was conquered – now, mass mountaineering must be addressed

Seventy years ago today, Kiwi Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mt Everest. Now, mountaineering is hugely popular and commercial but that has come with consequences, write tourism researchers.


Wednesday Letter: Welcome back TRENZ 24th May 2023 /

Wednesday Letter: Welcome back TRENZ

A full-programme TRENZ makes a welcome return but there’s a glaring omission, writes the Ticker’s Paul Yandall.


…but they cannot solve aviation’s colossal climate woes, say researchers 22nd May 2023 /

…but they cannot solve aviation’s colossal climate woes, say researchers

How will aviation continue to grow while doing its fair share on climate change?


Wednesday Letter: Fixing New Zealand’s tourism system 17th May 2023 /

Wednesday Letter: Fixing New Zealand’s tourism system

Why the sector needs to be reviewed with new governance and a sustainable funding model developed.


Perspectives: Does British tourism really need the royal family? 15th May 2023 /

Perspectives: Does British tourism really need the royal family?

The new king highlights royalty’s attraction to visitors but how valuable is it to UK tourism?


Perspectives: The quest for quieter whale watching 1st May 2023 /

Perspectives: The quest for quieter whale watching

Quieter boats could help to deliver more enjoyable guest experience for whale-watching operators, their guests, and the whales themselves.


Perspectives: Economic headwinds slowing tourism recovery 28th April 2023 /

Perspectives: Economic headwinds slowing tourism recovery

New Zealand will need to be innovative to stay top-of-mind overseas as recession looms.


Perspectives: The winds of change blow south 21st April 2023 /

Perspectives: The winds of change blow south

With United Airlines soon to reconnect Christchurch direct to the USA, Christchurch Airport is becoming even more than the ‘gateway to the South Island’, writes Nick Ashley, airline development manager for the airport.


Wednesday Letter: Covid settings keep visitors away for longer 12th April 2023 /

Wednesday Letter: Covid settings keep visitors away for longer

The seven-day isolation requirement impedes tourism and is out of step with most countries, writes TECNZ’s Lynda Keene.


Perspectives: New York’s change to ‘I ♥ NY’ a cautionary tale for place branding 30th March 2023 /

Perspectives: New York’s change to ‘I ♥ NY’ a cautionary tale for place branding

A simple rebrand of New York’s iconic slogan from “I” to “we” illustrates the complex challenges of place branding.


Wednesday Letter: How will AI transform the work of tourism professionals? 22nd March 2023 /

Wednesday Letter: How will AI transform the work of tourism professionals?

New AI tools and insights could help the sector become more efficient and responsive.


Tourism vital to Hawke’s Bay recovery – Hamish Saxton 24th February 2023 /

Tourism vital to Hawke’s Bay recovery – Hamish Saxton

As rain keeps coming, Hawke’s Bay Tourism’s CEO says the visitor economy will be vital to the region’s recovery.


Perspectives: Is sports sponsorship money well spent for DMOs? 7th February 2023 /

Perspectives: Is sports sponsorship money well spent for DMOs?

Football has a massive TV viewership and can attract big spending and big eyeballs but is it an effective way to market a country?


Perspectives: Auckland’s deluge a sign of things to come 30th January 2023 /

Perspectives: Auckland’s deluge a sign of things to come

The extraordinary flood event Auckland experienced on the night of 27 January, the eve of the city’s anniversary weekend, was caused by rainfall that was literally off the chart, writes weather and climate researcher Professor James Arthur Renwick.


TIA: Tourism priorities for the new PM… 26th January 2023 /

TIA: Tourism priorities for the new PM…

The industry needs dynamic immigration settings that will enable New Zealand to compete globally, writes the association’s Rebecca Ingram.


Ticker Take: Tourism should welcome PM’s resignation 19th January 2023 /

Ticker Take: Tourism should welcome PM’s resignation

Jacinda Ardern acted decisively to tackle Covid but the govt’s response to ongoing challenges became ragged and appeared increasingly ideological to many in industry.


Perspectives: The coach sector is in crisis because of govt inaction 1st December 2022 /

Perspectives: The coach sector is in crisis because of govt inaction

BCA’s Ben McFadgen says the shortage of operators, drivers and coaches is a direct result of the sector being overlooked.


Wednesday Letter: NZ still a ‘dream destination’ for China 30th November 2022 /

Wednesday Letter: NZ still a ‘dream destination’ for China

CTS’ Lisa Li on how the Chinese visitor recovery could look for NZ tourism.


Perspectives: G20 economies must lead a reimagined tourism future 21st November 2022 /

Perspectives: G20 economies must lead a reimagined tourism future

With innovative thinking, tourism can help get the world’s economies back on track – and help to “recover together, recover stronger”.


Wednesday Letter: RAL can’t just blame Covid, weather – it’s time to end the paralysis 12th October 2022 /

Wednesday Letter: RAL can’t just blame Covid, weather – it’s time to end the paralysis

The operator has been plagued by infighting and a legacy structure that hampered it when action was needed most.


Wednesday Letter: Thanks 14th September 2022

Wednesday Letter: Thanks

Tourism Ticker’s Paul Yandall on the end of Covid, the value of visitors to New Zealand tourism, and a big thanks for your support.


Perspectives: Could a Tarras airport divert tourists from Christchurch? 9th September 2022 /

Perspectives: Could a Tarras airport divert tourists from Christchurch?

City ratepayers could pay twice if a new airport struggles to make profit and takes tourism from Canterbury, argues Ilan Noy from Victoria University.


Perspectives: Cruise ships return, but do they deserve a lavish welcome? 23rd August 2022 /

Perspectives: Cruise ships return, but do they deserve a lavish welcome?

With questions around cruise ships’ environmental and health impacts and their relatively small contribution to the economy, lavish welcomes may not be justifiable, writes Timothy Welch.


Perspectives: Could climate change put NZ’s whale watching at risk? 19th August 2022 /

Perspectives: Could climate change put NZ’s whale watching at risk?

The effects of climate change on ocean temperatures could force great whales to disappear from New Zealand’s waters.


Perspectives: The role of tourism levies in marine conservation 16th August 2022 /

Perspectives: The role of tourism levies in marine conservation

A “beneficiary pays” approach to tourism could support local communities and conservation efforts.


Perspectives: Are RTOs the right fit for our DMPs? 11th August 2022 /

Perspectives: Are RTOs the right fit for our DMPs?

Tourism NZ is not lumbered with destination management so why should RTOs be?


“We’re more than survivors, we are going to thrive” – TECNZ’s Mehrtens 10th August 2022 /

“We’re more than survivors, we are going to thrive” – TECNZ’s Mehrtens

The pandemic has left the industry battered and bruised but it is now time to navigate a new future, says TECNZ’s chair.


Perspectives: A foot and mouth outbreak in NZ would affect more than agriculture – tourism needs a plan too 9th August 2022

Perspectives: A foot and mouth outbreak in NZ would affect more than agriculture – tourism needs a plan too

Overseas experience warns of potentially severe impacts on the tourism sector too from a foot and mouth outbreak.


Perspectives: Extreme heat events dangerous for business 8th August 2022 /

Perspectives: Extreme heat events dangerous for business

How much of an impact does soaring temperature have on business profitability?


Perspectives: Why staff well-being plans are important in the workplace 25th July 2022 /

Perspectives: Why staff well-being plans are important in the workplace

Businesses that develop a comprehensive well-being plan can go a long way to preventing mental health problems in the workplace.


Perspectives: What’s next for travel and tourism? 7th July 2022 /

Perspectives: What’s next for travel and tourism?

The World Economic Forum turns to two experts to highlight some of the key areas of risk and opportunity in the sector.


Perspectives: Why is there chaos in the global airline industry? 27th June 2022 /

Perspectives: Why is there chaos in the global airline industry?

Cancelled flights, disrupted vacations, and frayed tempers are rife as people take to the skies and the airline industry comes under pressure.