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Australian travellers vital to NZ hotel survival

Anticipation of the trans-Tasman bubble means the outlook for total loss of employment in the hotel sector is a little…
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TripAdvisor tries to calm travel anxiety with new feature

Accom providers can now promote the safety measures they have put in place by accessing the checklist in your Tripadvisor…
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Time, family, work – and bored zombies. New Zealanders open up about life in coronavirus lockdown

Zombies or not, people were more positive than we’d expected. Their answers tell us about human resilience, humour, hardship and…
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Māori tourism employs more than 1000 workers

While data in this release was collected before the COVID-19 outbreak, and the border closure to international tourists in late…
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Concession relief supports tourism survival

In the longer term, TIA also wants New Zealanders to be released from having to pay concession fees.
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NZ’s first Holiday Inn opens its doors in time for Queenstown’s ski season

A first for New Zealand, Holiday Inn Express & Suites Queenstown officially opens to guests July 10. The hotel’s general…
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Christchurch prepares for first big post-COVID conference

MEETINGS 2021 will be held this time next year, on 30 June and 1 July 2021, at Te Pae Christchurch,…
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Will COVID-19 increase importance of hotel sustainability while killing off Airbnb competition?

“It’s not all doom and gloom for the hotel industry."
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Industry demands permanent rate drop for Auckland accom

In April, Auckland’s commercial accommodation providers were relieved by a council decision to suspend the controversial Accommodation Provider Targeted Rate…
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Op-Ed: On managing COVID-19 better than the Australians, and The Ellis Case

If anything this week's outbreaks in and around Melbourne are a timely reminder of the bullet we dodged by not…
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Part 4: Where has the profit gone?

In part 3 of this series we looked at the new reality of dwindling profits, increasing technology costs and their impact on the manager’s bottom line. We posed the questions ‘who should bear these costs and who is the true beneficiary of the new technology?’
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Do things a little differently: Maximise your marketing tools to grow occupancy in 2020

It’s no secret that in the accommodation industry, competition is getting fiercer and consumer standards are growing, and that can in turn, reflect occupancy rates. Profitability is of course the primary goal, and relies heavily on consistent occupancy; guest retention and new bookers.
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RMS Voted Best Supplier by Quest Apartment Hotels New Zealand

RMS Cloud, developer of the industry leading property management system, has won the best supplier award at the Quest Apartment Hotels New Zealand and Fiji Network Conference 2019.
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New recruits in hospitality can now get essential skills in weeks not years

Successful hospitality employers know that training and retaining great staff is essential for a successful and sustainable business. The challenge is how can those businesses who need to get staff up to speed quickly find a reliable way to do it.
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Don’t even go there: How Health Pak can help you beat the tyranny of bad reviews

The modern-day Kiwi has been pre-programmed to comment on every aspect of their holiday, from the moment they’re greeted at the door or pick up the key, to the last time they step out of the bathroom, do a final sweep and lock the room behind them.
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5 Stars at 30

Back when Emma McKinnon was 18, fresh out of school, and in her first job greeting guests at the front desk of Blenheim’s luxury five-star Chateau Marlborough Hotel, all she longed for was “to be in management telling people what to do.”
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