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Product Update (March 2010)

March has arrived and is a great time for your clients to visit New Zealand. New Zealand schools have begun for the year and cruise ships are starting to migrate to the Northern Hemisphere. This means that the beaches are un-crowded and best of all the water is still crystal clear and great for swimming!

Northland

Dive! Tutukaka

Dive! Tutukaka has received International Environmental Honours. Project AWARE Foundation honours dive operators around the world who display commitment and excellence in their efforts to protect underwater environments within business operations and their community. Dive! Tutukaka have been operating at the Poor Knights Islands and inside a complete Marine Reserve for over ten years. Their commitment to their mission statement, "Guardians to our marine environment" and its philosophies are evident in the award, the fourth year in a row they have been selected. One of only two operators in New Zealand, and 22 in the entire South East Asia Pacific Region, this accolade reflects their passion, and demonstrates the continual raising of the bar in all aspects of the company.
www.diving.co.nz


Auckland

TIME Unlimited Tours

TIME Unlimited Tours offers your clients the most extensive range of high-quality tours available in Auckland. Both the range and quality of their Auckland Tours makes them one of the fastest-growing tourism businesses in New Zealand.

TIME Unlimited Tours has just been pronounced overall winner in the public vote section of the global Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award 2010. The competition comprised applicants from 10 different countries around the world (Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mexico, Micronesia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sweden).
www.newzealandtours.travel


Wellington

Wellington Sights

A drink for Treebeard

Flat Earth New Zealand Experiences has launched a new brand called Wellington Sights. Wellington Sights offers interactive tours in and around Wellington; they promise your clients a memorable experience of New Zealand’s capital city.

Your clients will capture Wellington’s most picturesque landmarks and learn about creative photographic techniques on the new Snapshot of Wellington Tour. Wellington Sights also has the World famous Wellington Rings Tour which leaves your clients enchanted by the city’s Lord of the Rings film locations and spellbound by the creative genius at the Weta Cave.

Tours start daily at 10am and 2pm and run for approximately 2 1/2 hours.
www.wellingtonsights.co.nz


Christchurch

Hotel SO

Hotel SO is a new, 284-room designer hotel in central Christchurch. It's a new generation of hotel, eco-friendly, spirited and smart, and with high-quality features and technology to meet the needs of today's traveler.

Your clients create their own in-room experience, with leading technology and features that meet the highest standards of service and design. Hotel SO has everything the modern traveler expects - café and bar, gymnasium and saunas, conference rooms and relaxation areas. Whether your clients would usually opt for a hotel, motel or hostel, they are encouraged to experience Hotel SO.
www.hotelso.co.nz


West Coast

Norwest Adventures

The NEW Underworld Adventurer Combo combines the best of the Underworld Rafting & Adventure Caving. Your clients experience a full on day with the best Glowworm display on this planet with surreal Stalactite and Stalagmite formations all in expedition style caving, complete with abseils, climbs, crawls, squeezes & cascading waterways.

Underworld Adventures is located alongside SH6 in Charleston partway between Westport & Punakaiki on the South Island's West Coast.
www.caverafting.com


Te Anau

Distinction Te Anau Hotel & Villas

Milford Sound

Imagine a wedding in one of the most romantic and awe-inspiring places on earth!

Whether it’s for two of your clients escaping for their special moment - or a grand affair, the Lakeview Chapel at Distinction Te Anau Hotel and Villas is the perfect wedding setting.

Surroundings of glass, picturesque views of Lake Te Anau and the Fiordland Ranges, the Lakeview Chapel is everything your clients dream of and more. Whether it is an afternoon wedding where your clients can see all of the chapel’s beauty in the sunlight, or an evening wedding trying to catch the breathtaking sunset in the background, there has never been a more romantic chapel exclusively set for weddings.

Alongside the Chapel, the new look sophisticated, modern and chic Distinction Te Anau Hotel and Villas presents an atmosphere of luxury and indulgence for any discerning traveller, and has never looked better.
www.weddingteanau.co.nz

Fiordland Lodge

Set in a World Heritage Area, Fiordland Lodge offers your clients comfort and privacy, and is the perfect base from where to explore Milford Sound and Doubtful Sound, and the surrounding Fiordland National Park.

The elegance and splendour of the Lodge is mirrored in the breathtaking views of Lake Te Anau and Fiordland.

Private and serene, the Lodge is perfect for relaxation, or as a base for your clients Fiordland experience. Ten guest rooms all have commanding views over Lake Te Anau, and external access out onto either the balcony upstairs, or the lawn downstairs. Each guest room is furnished with super king size beds and appointed private bathrooms.
www.fiordlandlodge.co.nz

Tourism Radio Guide

Tourism Radio Guide is a "virtual" Tour Guide that keeps your clients fully informed about the area they are driving through. As you're clients are driving along, the GPS technology reads their location and the commentators keep them right up to date with where they are, where to go and what to see and do.

Tourism Radio provides your clients with over 2000 points of interest each day of their holiday which is filled with interesting information, both local and historical. All the prominent landmarks, scenic highlights and attractions are highlighted as your clients approach them.

Your clients can book a Tourism Radio Guide for their Motorhome, Campervan, Rental car or personal car and have it delivered to their pick up location for the start of their holiday.

Let your clients sit back, relax and enjoy their travels with Tourism Radio Guide by their side.
www.tourismradio.co.nz

Source: Tourism New Zealand Product Update


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