Conference

Low pay and a lack of career progression were the main concerns raised by members at yesterday’s Young Tourism Export Council conference in Auckland.

Young industry professionals are converging on the Grand Millennium Auckland today for the Young Tourism Export Council of New Zealand’s annual summit.

Tourism Export Council of New Zealand chief executive Judy Chen presented aspects of the NZ industry’s sustainability efforts to more than 500 delegates at the Australian Tourism Export Council’s annual conference in Brisbane this week.

Napier will be the host city for the Eventing the Future 2020 conference next year.

After more than a decade’s absence, the agency is taking its trade event back to LA as air connectivity with the United States takes off.

The annual Conventions and Incentives New Zealand conference will be held in Napier in the Hawkes Bay in 2020.

Delegates were welcomed to CINZ Conference 2019 with a welcome function at  Gibbston Valley Winery in Queenstown on Tuesday evening.

The NZICC has secured the 61st Annual Meeting and Congress of the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists in 2023.

NZ’s $558m business events sector is seeking quotes for the Business Events Research Programme contract.

New Zealand has won its bid to host the 10th World Avocado Congress in 2023.

The New Zealand International Convention Centre has added another event to its 2022 calendar after winning hosting rights for the 18th Australasian Tunnelling Conference.

The event will bring the owners and staff from the network of 77 full member visitor centres across the country to Southland next year.

Next year’s Tourism Summit Aotearoa is moving to Auckland.

Industry and government reveal their top priorities as a new issue with an “old” area of concern rears its head.

The state of New Zealand’s tourism industry, iwi involvement in the sector, overtourism and sustainability are among the issues under scrutiny at this year’s Tourism Summit Aotearoa.

The city has landed next year’s NZ Cruise conference and MEETINGS 2021 at Te Pae.

A lack of basic cruise services means Auckland is missing out, according to an industry panel.

However, convincing the public of that is a big challenge for the cruise industry, says CLIA chair Adam Goldstein.

The inaugural Tourism Tech Expo at Queenstown attracted around 100 delegates with seven start-ups pitching and presenting to investors and operators.

New Zealand tourism technology start-ups have great potential to go global, says one of the country’s leading angel investors.

The NZ Cruise Association’s 2019 Conference in Auckland on 22 -23 August has shifted venue to the Aotea Centre on Queen Street.

The Tourism Export Council of New Zealand’s annual conference will be held in New Plymouth next year.

Christchurch will host the 2021 annual conference of Australia’s home-based travel agent network, TravelManagers.

Hundreds of the country’s tourism suppliers and ITOs are attending TECNZ and NZ Māori Tourism conferences this week.

Tourism New Zealand has rescheduled all 19 famils that were postponed as a result of the Christchurch mosque attack in March, with the trips now set to take place before the end of the year.

We can’t have the joint turning into Cancun or Bali, says Air NZ’s CEO.

A panel of industry heavy-hitters spoke at Tourism West Coast’s annual Celebration of Tourism event held at the West Coast Events Centre, Shantytown, yesterday.

Registrations have opened for Conventions and Incentives New Zealand Annual Conference and AGM being held at Queenstown from 29 to 31 October.

Around 270 holiday parks professionals were in Wellington last week for the Holiday Parks Conference 2019.

Associate tourism minister Peeni Henare, Tourism New Zealand’s new chair, Jamie Tuuta, and Department of Conservation boss, Lou Sanson are all on the bill for this year’s Holiday Parks Conference which starts in earnest today.

The Department of Conservation has picked four rangers to attend the World Ranger Congress in Nepal on 12-16 November. 

‘Business Health: Personal Health’ is the focus of Aviation NZ’s conference to be held at the Cordis Hotel in Auckland on 5 and 6 August.

Christchurch will tomorrow play host to Tourism Industry Aotearoa’s final Discussing Tourism fixture, bringing to a close the four-strong series that has taken place across the country this month.

Tourism minister Kelvin Davis and Christchurch mayor Lianne Dalziel are among the speakers announced for this year’s TECNZ Conference on 14-15 August.

Air New Zealand chief executive, Christopher Luxon, is leading a panel of industry heavy-hitters lined up to speak at Tourism West Coast’s annual ‘Celebration of Tourism’ workshop next month.

Tourism Industry Aotearoa has opened registrations for its 2019 Tourism Summit Aotearoa event.

Marlborough has secured the Local Government New Zealand Conference for 2020 in a win that will see an estimated $861,000 pumped into the local economy.

Why some of New Zealand’s leading tourism businesses won’t pay.

More than 660 delegates are expected to attend the 2019 New Zealand Hotel Industry Conference and Awards event at Cordis, Auckland.

The award-winning event maestro on the evolution and the complexities of staging NZ’s biggest tourism showcase, TRENZ.

Sustainability will be writ large at next week’s annual tourism showcase in Rotorua.

Destination Queenstown’s convention team is bringing travel content conference, The Travel Bootcamp, to the destination for the first time this spring hosting travel content creators, bloggers and social media tastemakers from 4-6 October 2019.

Navigating a path to future growth in the face of new challenges such as competing accommodation options, construction, investment, finance and staffing issues forms the backbone of the agenda at this year’s New Zealand Hotel Industry Conference.

New Zealand’s leading business events showcase, MEETINGS, is to feature a post-event Christchurch famil for buyers for the first time this year.

TRENZ is expected to pump more than $10m of additional business into the 2018 host regions of Dunedin, Waitaki and Southland, according to a post-event report.

New Zealand’s tourism industry must keep “inventing, adapting and surprising” to manage the challenges present in the $38bn sector according to a Switzerland tourism boss.

Queenstown has won a bid to host the 9th annual International Adventure Conference in a move which will see the event come to the Southern Hemisphere for the first time.