Glossary of Tourism Terms

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ATTTO - Aviation Tourism and Travel Training Association

The ATTTO was established in 1994 as the recognised Industry Training Organisation (ITO) for the aviation, tourism and travel industries. ATTTO has a close association with Skill New Zealand, the Tertiary Education Commission and NZQA as well as other ITOs. www.attto.org.nz

Automobile Association of New Zealand (AA)

The AA distributes extensive annual New Zealand accommodation and attraction guides. The AA is also a shareholder in Qualmark New Zealand. www.aaguides.co.nz

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Bus and Coach Association

The industry organisation for New Zealand’s bus and coach operators. The association has an advocacy, information distribution and promotional role for its members. www.busandcoach.co.nz

Business Travel

Travel of 1-365 days for the purpose of attending a convention or training, or conducting official/government or private business.

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Coach Tour

A guided bus tour for a group of holiday-makers that follows a scheduled itinerary. Visitors purchase all arrangements from the inbound tour operator prior to arrival in New Zealand.

Collateral

Promotional materials, such as brochures, DVDs and posters, distributed to travel trade partners for the purpose of educating sellers about and/or assisting in the sale of suppliers’ products.

Consolidators

Based in some offshore markets, consolidators buy airfares in bulk from airlines and sell these to retail agents for on-sale to consumers.

Conventions and Incentives New Zealand

The New Zealand Conventions Association markets New Zealand’s convention facilities offshore. It is a member-based organisation. www.conventionsnz.com

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DoC - Department of Conservation

The Department of Conservation is the central government organisation charged with conserving the natural and historic heritage of New Zealand on behalf of and for the benefit of present and future New Zealanders. DoC administers the National Parks, marine reserves and conservation areas in New Zealand. People looking to operate a business on DoC land, take groups, film or photograph the areas will need to contact the local DoC area office to apply for a concession. www.doc.govt.nz

Domestic Travel Survey (DTS)

The DTS measures the travel patterns of New Zealand residents travelling within New Zealand. A range of data is collected, including day trips, overnight trips, nights away, places stayed, main reason for trips, transport used, activities undertaken and expenditure. Domestic travellers are surveyed by telephone and must have travelled at least 40km away from home. To view the latest DTS data visit www.tourismresearch.govt.nz

DTO - District Tourism Organisation

A District Tourism Organisation looks after a smaller area than a Regional Tourism Organisation, and is usually smaller and has less funding.

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Explore New Zealand

Explore New Zealand is an incentive programme to encourage international travel agents, wholesalers and selected media to experience New Zealand’s tourism products. The Explore New Zealand discount booklet is the focus of the programme. This offers free and discounted activities, accommodation and attractions in New Zealand. New Zealand operators can register for participation in the Explore programme on this website. For more information please contact stepheng@tnz.govt.nz

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Familiarisation

Familiarisation visits (famils) bring international media and travel trade to New Zealand to experience products and regions first-hand. Tourism New Zealand works closely with Regional Tourism Organisations to arrange these famils. If you are interested in getting involved contact your local RTO.

FIT - Free Independent Travellers

FITs are visitors to New Zealand who travel around independently, as opposed to on a coach or more packaged tour.

Forecasts

Every year the Tourism Research Council New Zealand provides forecasts of major tourism activity for the following seven years (nights, spend, visits, etc). These forecasts establish a robust set of expectations of international and domestic tourism demand at both national and regional levels. National, regional and RTO forecasts can be downloaded from www.tourismresearch.govt.nz

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Green Globe/Green Globe 21

GREEN GLOBE 21 is the worldwide benchmarking and certification programme which facilitates sustainable travel and tourism for consumers, companies and communities. It is based on Agenda 21 and principles for Sustainable Development endorsed by 182 governments at the United Nations Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992. www.greenglobe21.com

Group Travel

Group travel is often used to mean coach tour travellers, but can also refer to holiday-makers who travel with a group of two or more couples, a family group, a school or special interest group, etc.

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HANZ - Hospitality Association New Zealand

The Hospitality Association is a voluntary trade association representing 2000+ hospitality businesses. The Association provides members with advice on legal and trade issues and has purchasing deals with major wholesalers. www.hanz.org.nz

HAPNZ - Holiday Accommodation Parks of New Zealand

HAPNZ is the industry organisation for holiday parks in New Zealand with over 280 members. www.hapnz.co.nz

Hospitality Standards Institute

This is the Industry Training Organisation for the hospitality industry www.hsi.co.nz

Hotel Council New Zealand

New Zealand Hotel Council (formerly known as Major Accommodation Providers) is an incorporated society whose members include the international chain, independent, privately owned and boutique hotels throughout the country. www.nzhc.org.nz

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IMP

The International Media Programme brings over 350 targeted media visitors to New Zealand each year to experience the country first-hand. The programme generates high-quality print and media results, and is targeted to media of interest to our target market. If you are interested in being involved with the IMP programme contact your local RTO.

Inbound Tour Operator

Inbound tour operators (IBOs) are based in New Zealand. They are responsible for preparing itineraries and booking the ground arrangements on behalf of internationally based wholesalers.

Inbound Travel

Inbound travel comprises short-term arrivals into a country by nationals/residents of other countries.

International Visitor Arrivals (IVA)

All international visitors who intend to stay for less than 12 months are counted in the IVA data. Information includes total visitor number, visitors by source country, purpose of visit, age and port of entry.

Information is obtained from passenger arrival and departure cards collected at various New Zealand international airports and seaports by the New Zealand Customs Service. It is processed by Statistics New Zealand and managed by the Ministry of Tourism. The TRCNZ website has updates on the latest arrival data every month. Visit www.tourismresearch.govt.nz

International Visitor Survey (IVS)

The IVS is conducted at the three largest international airports in the departure lounges as visitors leave the country. It measures visitor expenditure, regions visited, accommodation used, activities undertaken and other travel variables. The IVS is managed by the Ministry of Tourism and is released quarterly. To view the latest IVS data visit www.tourismresearch.govt.nz

i-SITE Visitor Centres

i-SITE is the brand for visitor centres accredited to the official Visitor Information Network. There are over 85 i-SITE Visitor Centres located throughout New Zealand providing on-the-ground visitor information and tourist services. Tourism New Zealand incorporates information in its publications and on its website about i-SITEs, encouraging visitors to use them as they travel around New Zealand. www.i-SITE.org

ITOC - Inbound Tour Operators Council

The Inbound Tour Operators Council of New Zealand is a trade association representing the New Zealand inbound tourism industry. They have been a major player in the New Zealand tourism industry for over 30 years. ITOC represents inbound tour operators (Full Members) and their suppliers (Allied Members). www.ITOC.org.nz

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JATA - Japan Association of Travel Agents

JATA is an industry association for travel agents within Japan, and those bringing business to the country. It contributes to
the development of the travel and tourism industries through a variety of activities including disseminating information, encouraging cooperation among members, and developing businesses and legal dealings that will benefit the membership and the industry at large. www.jata-net.or.jp

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KEA - Kiwi Expert Agents

Tourism New Zealand has operated the Kiwi Expert Agent (KEA) programme in Australia for 10 years and there are currently 250 KEA agents spread right across Australia. KEA benefits include access to special New Zealand familiarisation visits, joint advertising funding and collateral material. KEA agents qualify annually for their specialist status, which is subject to ongoing review.

Kiwi Specialists

The Kiwi Specialist programme offers North American travel professionals the opportunity to increase destination New Zealand knowledge, keep up to date with new product information and grow their New Zealand sales. The programme is open to all destination New Zealand travel agents, and wholesale and airline reservation sales staff in the United States and Canada.

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Long-haul Travel

Air travel of eight or more hours’ duration is considered long-haul travel. Nearly all of New Zealand’s travel markets are long haul.

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MANZ - Motel Association of New Zealand

MANZ is the national trade association representing motels in New Zealand. www.nzmotels.co.nz

Māori Regional Tourism Organisations

This term is used broadly to describe Māori Tourism groups. These Māori networking groups are diverse - some are iwi based while, others sit alongside existing RTOs and macro regional alliances, but the majority exist to build capacity, encourage networking and the formation of relationships with key industry networks. There are eight MRTOs in New Zealand with others developing. Your local iwi or RTO could help you make contact.

Medium-haul Travel

Air travel of between four and eight hours’ duration is considered medium haul. Western Australia is one of the few medium-haul travel markets for New Zealand.

Ministry of Tourism

The Ministry of Tourism provides tourism policy advice to the Minister of Tourism and works with other government departments on key tourism policy issues and tourism research and statistics.

The Ministry of Tourism aims at sustainable tourism for New Zealand through quality research, policy and investment www.tourism.govt.nz

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NTO - National Tourism Organisation

NZITT - New Zealand Institute of Travel and Tourism New Zealand

Since 1968 NZITT has encouraged the attainment of national qualifications in travel and tourism, and recognises this achievement by granting professional status to members, and numerous peripheral benefits. www.nzitt.org.nz

NZMTC - New Zealand Māori Tourism Council

The NZMTC was formed in August 2004, and initiated by 13 Māori Regional Tourism Organisations to provide a mutually supportive network for the development of best practice by member MRTOs which leads to business growth and prosperity for Māori in tourism.

The NZTS2010 strategy is our common point of reference for the collective work of the council and the individual MRTOs. The council offers a ‘one stop shop’ for the tourism sector to engage with Māori in tourism. www.maoritourism.co.nz

NZTS 2010 - New Zealand Tourism Strategy 2010

Launched in 2001, the New Zealand Tourism Strategy is a documented strategy for the next 10 years on how to maximise and grow tourism’s potential, while ensuring cultural, economic, social and environmental sustainability.

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PATA - Pacific Asia Travel Association

The Pacific Asia Travel Association is the recognised authority on Pacific Asia travel and tourism. PATA provides marketing, research and educational opportunities to a membership of government tourist offices, airlines, hotels, travel agencies, tour operators and related companies.

PATA’s mission is to enhance the growth, value and quality of Pacific Asia travel and tourism for the benefit of its membership. www.pata.org

100% Pure New Zealand

Tourism New Zealand’s international marketing campaign was launched in 1999, and is a fully integrated, world-wide campaign, which has won multiple awards. For an idea of the campaign check out this page, or Tourism New Zealand’s official consumer website www.newzealand.com .

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Qualmark

Qualmark New Zealand Limited is New Zealand tourism’s official quality agency. It is a government-private sector partnership between Tourism New Zealand and New Zealand Automobile Association.

Qualmark operates as a licensing system for tourism’s official quality mark (the Qualmark©) and all tourism businesses in New Zealand are eligible to apply. There is a star grading system for accommodation and a quality endorsement system for other tourism businesses. www.qualmark.co.nz

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RTO - Regional Tourism Organisations

New Zealand is divided into Regional Tourism Organisations responsible for the marketing of their region internationally and domestically.

They have representatives from local and regional government, local tourism and business interests, and community groups.

Tourism New Zealand works closely with Regional Tourism Organisations. If you are unsure which RTO you are represented by you can link through to the Ministry of Tourism's contacts list here.

Retailer

A retailer is a firm, such as a travel or airline, that promotes and sells travel to consumers.

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Seasonality

The influence of the time of the year on patterns in travel. The volume of travel to New Zealand is far greater during the Southern Hemisphere summer and lower over our winter.

Short-haul Travel

Short-haul travel is air travel of less than four hours’ duration. Eastern Australia is New Zealand’s main short-haul travel market.

SME - Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Most of the New Zealand tourism industry fits within the small or medium-sized enterprises bracket.

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TAANZ - Travel Agent Association of New Zealand

TAANZ represents New Zealand travel agents, retail and wholesale, inbound and outbound. It has a code of ethics and a bonding system for members, which protects the public against business failure. www.taanz.org.nz

Target Market

With an estimated 650 million people travelling internationally each year, Tourism New Zealand could not attempt to market to all of these potential visitors, and would not want to attract them all to New Zealand. Our target market identifies the ideal group of visitors for this country, and focuses marketing activity on this group.

TIA - Tourism Industry Association New Zealand

The Tourism Industry Association is New Zealand’s main tourism industry association. TIA manages TRENZ, the New Zealand Tourism Industry Conference and the Tourism Industry Awards. Tourism New Zealand works closely with the TIA on these events. www.tianz.org.nz

Toi Iho

This is a ‘Maori-Made’ mark - introduced to guarantee authenticity and quality of Maori arts and crafts and managed by Creative New Zealand. www.toiiho.com

Tourism Industry Awards

The New Zealand Tourism Industry Awards recognise and reward excellence in the New Zealand tourism industry.

They represent the highest possible accolate for New Zealand tourism operators and are an opportunity to celebrate excellence and encourage continuous improvement in an ever-changing business environment.

The Tourism Industry Awards are managed by the TIA with significant support from sponsors Air New Zealand and Tourism New Zealand. www.tourismawards.co.nz

Tourism New Zealand

We are responsible for the international marketing of New Zealand as a destination, under the 100% Pure New Zealand campaign. We work closely with product suppliers within New Zealand, the Tourism Industry Association New Zealand and Regional Tourism Organisations. You are currently in the best place to find out About Us.

Tourism New Zealand also manages the consumer site
www.newzealand.com and the trade specific www.newzealand.com.travel/trade

Tourism Research Website

The Ministry of Tourism's research website aims to enhance the provision of data and research available for the New Zealand tourism sector. The website is New Zealand’s official tourism research website. Visit www.tourismresearch.govt.nz for the latest releases, all freely available.

Tourism Satellite Account

The TSA provides an official measure on the economic contribution of tourism to the New Zealand economy. It is produced annually. To view the latest data visit the www.tourismresearch.govt.nz

TRENZ

Tourism Rendezvous New Zealand (TRENZ) is New Zealand’s most significant annual international tourism trade show. This annual event delivers unique business opportunities for an extensive range of New Zealand tourism operators and international tourism buyers from around the globe. TRENZ is managed by the Tourism Industry Association New Zealand. www.trenz.co.nz

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VFR

A VFR is a trip for the purpose of Visiting Friends or Relatives for 1-365 days.

Visitor Information Network Inc (VIN Inc)

i-SITE Visitor Centres nationwide must apply to VIN Inc if they wish to become an accredited member of the network and ultimately use the i-SITE brand. VIN Inc
is run by a management board with three directors appointed by Tourism New Zealand including the Chairperson and three elected by the VIN owners.

www.i-SITE.org

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Wholesaler

A wholesaler is a firm that purchases products or ground arrangements from New Zealand suppliers or inbound operators, and, packages products for sale. Wholesalers deal primarily with retailers, but sometimes also sell directly to the public.

WTO - World Tourism Organisation

The leading international organisation in
the field of travel and tourism, the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) is vested by the United Nations with a central and decisive role in promoting the development of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.

In 2003 its membership reached 141 countries, seven territories and some 350 Affiliate Members representing the private sector, educational institutions, tourism associations and local tourism authorities.

www.unwto.org

WTTC - World Travel and Tourism Council

The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) is the forum for global business leaders comprising the presidents, chairs and CEOs of 100 of the world’s foremost companies. It is the only body representing the private sector in all parts of the travel and tourism industry worldwide.

www.wttc.org