21st August 2023 Agritourism / TrainingAgritourism New Zealand has launched an online accelerator programme to broaden its reach into more areas of New Zealand and to meet demand.
21st August 2023 Air NZ / TrainingTraining in the aviation engineering sector is receiving a boost through a new partnership between Air New Zealand and Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology | Te Pūkenga.
14th August 2023 Digital / TrainingThe government’s Digital Boost platform has added 60 new tourism and hospitality videos to its website to help businesses in the industry learn more about digital tools to aid productivity and efficiency.
10th July 2023 Grow Tourism / TrainingNZ needs a tourism workforce to match the sector’s ambitions, says Grow Tourism co-founder Alex Dykman.
28th June 2023 Funding / TrainingIndustry stakeholders have welcomed the government’s provision of $128m to support universities, but say it is too early to know what the consequences will be for tourism.
26th May 2023 NZICC / TrainingThe New Zealand International Convention Centre and the International Association for Professional Congress Organisers (IAPCO) are partnering to develop a multi-year leadership programme.
6th April 2023 Grow Tourism / TrainingMaverick Digital’s Alex Dykman and Tash McGill have unveiled their new online learning platform for the tourism and hospitality industries.
8th March 2023 Events / TrainingRinga Hora Workforce Development Council is hosting a travel and tourism hui this month to better understand current and future workforce requirements in the services sector.
10th February 2023 Events / TrainingWomen in Events is seeking applications for its 2023 Mentor programme.
28th July 2022 Hospitality NZ / TrainingHospitality New Zealand will launch a new programme to develop future leaders and provide access to career pathways within the industry.
28th July 2022 Hospitality / TrainingThe accreditation is for businesses that seek to promote an efficient, productive and harmonious workplace culture.
18th May 2022 Grow Tourism / TrainingGrow Tourism, co-founded by strategic tourism practitioners Tash McGill and Alex Dykman, will offer bite-sized, modular learning for participants.
29th April 2022 ServiceIQ / TrainingRinga Hora Services Workforce Development Council has received $3m from industry training organisation ServiceIQ to boost workforce and skills development for hospitality, tourism, aviation, travel, and retail.
11th April 2022 Employment / TrainingTourism and hospitality employment opportunities across the region can be improved, says a new report.
2nd March 2022 GwT / TrainingFrom security to skydiving – discover Gus’s career journey, courtesy of Go with Tourism.
28th February 2022 GwT / TrainingEmployment initiative Go with Tourism has identified 28 industry-led ideas to improve the tourism and hospitality workforce.
3rd December 2021 Education / TrainingAround 20 operators are involved in reviving an adventure tourism qualification at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology’s Rotorua campus in a bid to meet a shortage of outdoor tourism staff.
5th November 2021 Events / TrainingThe Go with Tourism Workforce Wānanga is going online.
18th October 2021 Training / YoungTECAn exclusive number of YoungTEC members will be able to take part in a Resilient Leadership workshop to encourage and enhance the skills of young industry leaders.
20th September 2021 Events / TrainingGo with Tourism will host a Workshop Wānanga in Auckland on 17 – 18 November to address workforce challenges and skill shortages within tourism and hospitality.
2nd September 2021 TrainingGo with Tourism and YoungTEC will deliver a mentorship programme for New Zealand students to learn about the tourism industry.
14th July 2021 Sustainability / TrainingWellingtonNZ aims to share lessons learned from programme with rest of New Zealand after pilot complete.
2nd July 2021 Education / TrainingNew resource seen as good way to maximise business opportunities when borders re-open.
8th June 2021 TrainingTravel training course hopes to assist industry recovery with some courses free.
19th May 2021 Training / YoungTECRegistrations for professional development programme close on 1 June.
16th April 2021 Employment / TrainingProgramme has funding for 140 participants, to start 3 May.
25th February 2021 Aviation NZ / TrainingAlmost 500 international pilot students have been waiting to get to New Zealand since March 2020, according to a survey by Aviation NZ.
8th December 2020 TrainingUP Education has partnered with Air New Zealand, The Warehouse Group and Flight Centre to support employees who have been made redundant, put on furlough or had their hours significantly reduced.
20th October 2020 CEDA / TrainingCentral Economic and Development Agency is providing tourism and hospitality businesses with a free workshop to help their marketing.
15th September 2020 Education / TrainingChanging how tourism is taught in schools is one of the winning ideas from the Young Enterprises ‘Entrepreneurs in Action’ business competition.
13th August 2020 DOC / TrainingThe Department of Conservation and Ministry of Social Development’s conservation training programme for job seekers in Canterbury has been extended for three years.
11th August 2020 Employment / TrainingThe Government has launched a new online, phone and onsite service to help New Zealanders connect to a range of employment support and products for workers and businesses affected by Covid-19.
7th August 2020 Education / TrainingThe Eastern Institute of Technology in the Hawke’s Bay will offer a new NZ Certificate in Outdoor Experiences (Level 3) as part of its School of Trades and Technology.
4th August 2020 Employment / TrainingGo with Tourism is launching a weekly web series, The Itinerary, to help inform those considering a career in tourism.
29th July 2020 Employment / TrainingWhanganui & Partners will host host a free event in August to help employers understand the support available to them through the Government.
22nd July 2020 Training / YoungTECThe ‘Opportunity in uncertainty’ workshop was developed in partnership with The Icehouse and registrations would be open exclusively to YoungTEC members.
3rd June 2020 Education / TrainingThe Targeted Training and Apprenticeships Fund will pay the costs of people of all ages to undertake vocational education and training.
21st May 2020 Government / Training“This will be crucial for towns such as Rotorua and Kaikoura, where the effects of Covid-19 will be particularly difficult due to loss of income from international tourism.”
11th May 2020 Training / WellingtonNZWellingtonNZ is launching a interactive workshops called Thrive to help owners rebuild businesses in the wake of Covid-19.
4th May 2020 Jobs / TrainingServiceIQ has launched new online training to help the hospitality industry with induction and food and workplace safety training.
19th December 2019 PGF / TrainingCadets working towards their professional raft guide qualifications have reached the nine-week mark, or just over half way, this December.
13th December 2019 Education / TrainingThe Go with Tourism job platform has launched in Northland.
13th September 2019 TrainingThe fourth year of the New Zealand School of Tourism and Young Tourism Export Council of New Zealand speed dating initiative attracted the largest group of participants to date.
9th August 2019 TrainingAuckland Council is seeking 14 student rangers to join its regional parks team for a three-month paid internship over summer.
15th May 2019 Training / TRENZTourism Industry Aotearoa is on the hunt for funding to deliver a $1.9m three-year package of initiatives to attract New Zealanders to tourism careers.
13th May 2019 Airline / TrainingAir New Zealand has partnered with hospitality training institute Queenstown Resort College to boost tourism trainign for students.
14th March 2019 Awards / TrainingAJ Hackett Bungy NZ has been recognised at the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand’s national awards with the Queenstown-based recruitment and training officer, Heidi Gillingham, named as emerging HR practitioner of the year.
15th October 2018 Skydiving / TrainingA new commercial skydiving qualification has just been approved in a move that boosts prospects for both employees and employers in the adventure aviation sector.
27th August 2018 TECNZ / TrainingThe Young Tourism Export Council and New Zealand School of Tourism have teamed up in an effort to provide guidance to the next generation of tourism professionals.
23rd August 2018 Education / TrainingThe top challenges around encouraging and recruiting talent into tourism include the perception that it offers limited career pathways, the jobs are low-status and the pay is average, according to new research.
