Media Releases


TEC Supports Choose Clean Water Petition to Parliament

Tuesday, March 29th, 2016

Tourism Industry Supports Petition for Freshwater Policy to Parliament The Tourism Export Council was delighted to be with the Choose Clean Water team and continue the […]

Thanks for supporting Choose Clean Water Tour

Thursday, February 18th, 2016

The Tourism Export Council would like to thank all those tourism, travel and hospitality operators who have signed the “Choose Clean Water Petition”. The team were […]

Hotel shortage Queenstown loses business from New Zealand

Friday, February 12th, 2016

Queenstown’s hotel shortage might be tarnishing New Zealand’s reputation as a tourist destination. A senior manager at an inbound tour company said large groups unable to […]

Tourism industry wants stronger protection for Lake Taylor

Thursday, January 28th, 2016

Tourism Industry wants strong protection for Lake Taylor New Zealand waterways are again suffering abuse at the hands of weak legislation. Over the past week, several […]

Choose Clean Water Tour

Thursday, December 10th, 2015

Tourism Export Council Supports “Choose Clean Water Tour” The Tourism Export Council New Zealand (TECNZ) is pleased to confirm both political and financial support to the […]

TEC Inbound Operator Report 2015

Thursday, December 10th, 2015

The TEC Inbound Tour Operator Report in partnership with ATEED is now available for members. Please respect that the data collected in report should not be […]

Immigration NZ – Visa fact sheet

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

Immigration NZ has a new Immigration visa fact sheet – Nov 2015

Church of Good Shepherd Tekapo needs help!

Wednesday, November 18th, 2015

New Zealand’s most photographed Church needs industry help! Visitor numbers to the Church of the Good Shepherd have reached 300,000 per annum and there are issues […]

Up to 55% of international visitors still using inbound tour operators

Thursday, October 29th, 2015

Half of international visitors still using inbound tour operators for travel Research conducted by Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development and the Tourism Export Council New […]

Visiting International Driver Project initiatives at a glance

Thursday, October 22nd, 2015

INTERNATIONAL DRIVERS INFORMATION The Tourism Export Council (TEC) with the Rental Vehicle Association (RVA) two years ago started the process of looking at visiting international driving […]

Learning Mandarin important to tourism future

Sunday, October 18th, 2015

WHY LEARNING MANDARIN AND OTHER LANGUAGES ARE IMPORTANT TO NEW ZEALAND   China is the largest outbound international visitor market with more than 100 million per […]

2015 TEC Conference – Presidents speech

Thursday, August 27th, 2015

PRESIDENT MARTIN HORGAN – TOURISM EXPORT COUNCIL CONFERENCE SPEECH 2015 Firstly I want to congratulate you all on what has been an excellent year of success […]

2015 Young TEC Winners!

Thursday, August 20th, 2015

YOUNG TEC EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER! The Tourism Export Council of New Zealand announced Monday 17 August at the National Tourism Conference awards event held at Larnach […]

2015 Operator of Year Winners!

Thursday, August 20th, 2015

Top tour operators recognised by industry Three of New Zealand’s top operators have been recognised as the best in the business by their industry peers at […]

Skycity Convention Centre must go ahead

Friday, February 13th, 2015

IS THE SKYCITY CONVENTION CENTRE OUR CATHEDRAL BUILDING PROJECT? (Opinion piece) It is with utter surprise and dismay that in recent weeks I am reading the […]

G20 Insights from Brisbane – Nov 2014

Thursday, November 27th, 2014

INSIDE TOURISM – ARTICLE 19 November 2014 G20 TOURISM’S NEW FRONTIERS REPORT The CEO of Tourism Export Council, Lesley Immink last week attended the G20 Tourism […]

Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland-One of the 20 Most Surreal Places in the World-Trip Advisor

Thursday, November 27th, 2014

Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland is happy to announce that we have recently been named one of the 20 Most Surreal Places to visit in the World by […]

Dunedin to host 2015 TEC Conference

Friday, November 7th, 2014

SAVE THE DATES!           Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 August 2015  Congratulations to Enterprise Dunedin who were successful with their bid to host the 2015 Tourism […]

NEW “guide to working with NZ inbound tour operators”

Sunday, September 7th, 2014

Released at the Tourism Conference 2014 was the new guide on “how to work with a New Zealand Inbound Tour Operator”. The “Planning for Inbound Success” […]

Inaugural Young TEC Excellence Award Winner!

Friday, August 29th, 2014

INAUGURAL YOUNG TEC EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER! The Tourism Export Council of New Zealand announced today at the national tourism conference awards event held at the Claudelands […]

Operator of the Year – WINNERS!

Friday, August 29th, 2014

Top tour operators recognised by industry Two of New Zealand’s top operators have been recognised as the best in the business by their industry peers at […]

Tourism Radio Audio Travel Guides lead the way in tackling self-drive tourist road safety

Thursday, July 17th, 2014

(Auckland, New Zealand) Tourism Radio (http://www.tourismradio.co.nz) is fully committed to ensuring self-drive visitors to New Zealand get the best safety information available, as soon as they […]

Immigration – Essential Skills submission

Saturday, June 14th, 2014

The Tourism Export Council and TIA have recently submitted to Immigration New Zealand suggestions to add more tourism and hospitality related positions to the Essential Skills […]

Support for Tourism 2025

Wednesday, March 26th, 2014

Tourism Export Council supports the Tourism 2025 framework Chief Executive of the Tourism Export Council, Lesley Immink, congratulates Martin Snedden and the project team on Tourism […]

A “national park of 4 million”

Friday, January 31st, 2014

TOURISM BUSINESS MAGAZINE – JAN/FEB 2014 Being the start of the year it is an opportune time to indicate the priorities for the Tourism Export Council […]

Hamilton to host 2014 Tourism Conference!

Friday, November 22nd, 2013

Big benefits are set to come to Hamilton Waikato after it was announced the region will host the 2014 Tourism Export Council Conference. A review of […]

Christchurch Recovery update – visit soon!

Wednesday, October 30th, 2013

INSIDE TOURISM – EXPORT MATTERS Christchurch and Canterbury Tourism (CCT) recently hosted the Tourism Export Council Board meeting and the Board stayed on for a day […]

Congratulations & Lonely Planet accolades

Tuesday, October 29th, 2013

A huge congratulations to Brett, Jason and the Auckland ATEED team and Jim from West Coast for their recognition of being in the top 10 best […]

2025 NTP – Choose success over apathy!

Thursday, October 17th, 2013

INSIDE TOURISM – CHOOSE SUCCESS OVER APATHY! CEO of the Tourism Export Council Lesley Immink welcomes the NTP and believes that any naysayers of “we’ve been […]

Tourism Conference 2013 – a great forum for discussion!

Sunday, September 29th, 2013

TOURISM BUSINESS MAGAZINE – The recent Tourism Export Council Conference held in Masterton was a great forum to gather consensus on two very important issues. The […]