Holiday park owners’ confidence has fallen slightly as winter approaches, the latest Holiday Parks Business Confidence Monitor has found. The business confidence index has fallen by eight points from March/April to a score of +65…
Editor’s comment - I’m passionate about the hospitality industry and as an industry I think we’ve come a long way in the last few years. In many cases we offer world-class experiences to our guests. So…
Easter may be long gone but chocolate lovers need not despair. Pullman Auckland and Whittaker’s have teamed up to extend the sweet season with an indulgent chocolate month at the hotel to sate sweet taste…
Experimental learning: The use of screencasts in hospitality tertiary programmes. By Sue Townsend, Senior Lecturer School of Hospitality, Wellington Institute of Technology. The use of screencasts, recordings that capture audio narration along with computer screen images, is…
Rotorua’s plethora of successful large events over summer have resulted in its highest ever volume of domestic visitor nights in commercial accommodation for a February month. Visitor nights rose 19.2 per cent to 80,500 during…
Langham Hospitality Group’s wellness brand, Chuan Spa, will be introducing its first “Heavenly Jing Luo” Foot Treatment globally on May 1, 2013. Specially designed by Dr Gladys Leung, Chuan Spa consultant and a registered Traditional Chinese…
The Heritage Hotel Group is well known for its diverse range of four star hotels including its boutique collection, now it has appointed a new marketing manager, Scott Rees, to promote its brand as it…
The passing of the Mondayisation legislation in Parliament on April 17 marks a successful outcome for tourism operators around the country, the Tourism Industry Association New Zealand (TIA) says. “Two years ago, TIA travelled the…
Queenstown’s multi-award-winning Millbrook Resort is celebrating a ‘glory month’ of property sales with nearly $11m in contracts written in March. The five-star luxury lifestyle resort recorded $10.65m in contracts written during the month, around 40%…
Queenstown-based Touch of Spice has been selected as one of the world’s best luxury travel experts by influential magazine Condé Nast Traveller. Owner and CEO Jacqui Spice is the only New Zealander to be featured…