Training

The New Zealand International Convention Centre and the International Association for Professional Congress Organisers (IAPCO) are partnering to develop a multi-year leadership programme.

Maverick Digital’s Alex Dykman and Tash McGill have unveiled their new online learning platform for the tourism and hospitality industries.

Ringa 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.

Women in Events is seeking applications for its 2023 Mentor programme.

Hospitality New Zealand will launch a new programme to develop future leaders and provide access to career pathways within the industry.

The accreditation is for businesses that seek to promote an efficient, productive and harmonious workplace culture.

Grow Tourism, co-founded by strategic tourism practitioners Tash McGill and Alex Dykman, will offer bite-sized, modular learning for participants.

Ringa 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.

Tourism and hospitality employment opportunities across the region can be improved, says a new report.

From security to skydiving – discover Gus’s career journey, courtesy of Go with Tourism.

Employment initiative Go with Tourism has identified 28 industry-led ideas to improve the tourism and hospitality workforce.

Around 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.

The Go with Tourism Workforce Wānanga is going online.

An 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.

Go with Tourism will host a Workshop Wānanga in Auckland on 17 – 18 November to address workforce challenges and skill shortages within tourism and hospitality.

Go with Tourism and YoungTEC will deliver a mentorship programme for New Zealand students to learn about the tourism industry.

WellingtonNZ aims to share lessons learned from programme with rest of New Zealand after pilot complete.

New resource seen as good way to maximise business opportunities when borders re-open.

Travel training course hopes to assist industry recovery with some courses free.

Registrations for professional development programme close on 1 June.

Programme has funding for 140 participants, to start 3 May.

Almost 500 international pilot students have been waiting to get to New Zealand since March 2020, according to a survey by Aviation NZ.

UP 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.

Central Economic and Development Agency is providing tourism and hospitality businesses with a free workshop to help their marketing.

Changing how tourism is taught in schools is one of the winning ideas from the Young Enterprises ‘Entrepreneurs in Action’ business competition.

The Department of Conservation and Ministry of Social Development’s conservation training programme for job seekers in Canterbury has been extended for three years.

The 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.

The 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.

Go with Tourism is launching a weekly web series, The Itinerary, to help inform those considering a career in tourism.

Whanganui & Partners will host host a free event in August to help employers understand the support available to them through the Government.

The ‘Opportunity in uncertainty’ workshop was developed in partnership with The Icehouse and registrations would be open exclusively to YoungTEC members.

The Targeted Training and Apprenticeships Fund will pay the costs of people of all ages to undertake vocational education and 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.”

WellingtonNZ is launching a interactive workshops called Thrive to help owners rebuild businesses in the wake of Covid-19.

ServiceIQ has launched new online training to help the hospitality industry with induction and food and workplace safety training.

Cadets working towards their professional raft guide qualifications have reached the nine-week mark, or just over half way, this December. 

The Go with Tourism job platform has launched in Northland.

The 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.

Auckland Council is seeking 14 student rangers to join its regional parks team for a three-month paid internship over summer.

Tourism 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.

Air New Zealand has partnered with hospitality training institute Queenstown Resort College to boost tourism trainign for students. 

AJ 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. 

A new commercial skydiving qualification has just been approved in a move that boosts prospects for both employees and employers in the adventure aviation sector.

The 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.

The 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.

The industry training body has hired AgResearch’s Andrew McSweeney to be its new CEO.