They just keep coming:

Look at the waitress's outfit. Classic!

Oceania Tourism has been appointed to market the Return To Paradise Resort and Spa, Samoa, in the New Zealand market. The Resort which is due to open in November this year, is at Lefaga, 25 minutes south of Faleolo airport, on the southern side of the main Island of Upolu.

Ross McLauchlan, GM of Oceania, who recently returned from the site says the Resort is on track to open in November with 60 rooms. “It really is in a fantastic location for travellers who want to arrive at th...

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Tonga recently released a new tourism marketing campaign in New Zealand. The campaign runs until the end of June and includes billboard advertising and a TVC campain to support it. This is a New Zealand first and is expected to contirbute to an already growing industry.

Here are the two billboards:

Oceania Tourism have been appointed to represent the Return to Paradise Resorty and Spa, in Lefaga, Samoa, to the New Zealand market.

The Resort is named after its location on Return to Paradise Beach, and will be 4 1/2 stars.

For more information, please contact [email protected]oceani

This is awesome.

This article appeared as a Japanese transalton in the Japan Times Travel Section.


RAROTONGA COOK ISLANDS – They span an area the size of western Europe, but the Cook Islands may seem like the ends of the Earth when viewed from Japan — an 11-hour flight away south to New Zealand, followed by a four-hour “local hop” to the capital, Avarua, on the main island of Rarotonga.

Home to about 17,000 Maoris, this former British colony comprising 15 islands...

Graham “Skroo” Turner has a simple way of cutting through the corporate speak and time-wasting that often dominate internal meetings.

The man who built Flight Centre from one store on Sydney’s Martin Place to 2500 in 11 countries, amassing a personal fortune of close to $500 million worth of stock along the way, doesn’t beat around the bush.

This guy Ken and his Japanese partner run a Motor Lodge in Taupo and he is very bizarre. It's a wonder TV actually had enough guts to air the show.

http://tvnz.co.nz/hotel-sos/s1-e2-video-3933537

This is from a recent post on Harvard Business Review on Email and it offers a new perspective.

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/04/email_is_not_free.html

The difference if balc and white. Maybe we have come of age!

Tourism accreditation scheme steering committee members Janice Mellor, Greg Stanaway, Liana Scott, inspector Kate Payne, and Steve Lyon.

A New Zealand tourism accreditation inspector reports she is impressed with the standard of accommodation in Rarotonga, after checking 25 properties over a week.Kate Payne inspected t...

Rick Hamilton, CEO of Tourism FIJI, has decided they wont be participating in their own annual trade show, the BFTE or Bula Fiji Tourism Exchange. BFTE which is due to go 'live' on the 15 - 17th of May has been attended of late by numerous South Pacific nations and is advertised as:

"The Fiji Islands is the hub of the Pacific and at BFTE you can meet the top tourism identities from the Cook Islands, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, Norfolk, American Samoa, Samoa, Tahiti, S...

“The customer is always right!” Many businesses live by and preach this phrase. But is it true? No, and everyone knows it. What the phrase really means is that it is best to assume customers are always right and give them what they want rather than lose good customers.

But is this a good strategy to follow? I don’t think so, and others agree with me acco...

For a brand to have meaning in any useful sense there must be a collection of clear and concise standards which ensure that each user of the brand has the responsibility to deliver a consistent and uniform guest experience.

The great hotel operating companies of the world whether they are international or entir...

As Australia readies itself for a new lease of life in its ultra-luxurious hotel sector, the industry is debating whether it needs a new rating system to cater for this new era of development.

Over 60 hotels from established luxury brands are planned across the country in the coming years. “The developers of these hotels believe that the time has come to define a new category of luxury and they are pushing for a six-star rating to differentiate themselves,” says Julia...

By Hannah Edensor

One day after Quest Serviced Apartments relaunched as ‘Quest Apartment Hotels’, we decided to get the lowdown on the industry by speaking exclusively to Quest ceo Zed Sanjana.

And what an industry it is, with Airbnb, online travel agents, and a comp...