New Zealand’s tourists are very very happy

Buried in this MBIE report on the tourism outcome from the 2011 Rugby World cup was this chart: The little red pice of the left hand side of the bottom bar represents the percentage of people who gave their trip to New Zealand a 5 out of 10. That’s not a great trip for them …

Introducing MyTours

Announcing the launch of MyTours – today we have launched our first product on to iTunes. MyTours is a website that lets you load pictures, sound and text to create a tour. It’s great for Museums, local bodies, tour guides and other people that already have their own tours, and also for people that want …

Corruption kills tourism

I’m in Mozambique for seven weeks consulting to Mozal – the nine year old aluminium refinery that in 2000 helped signal to the world Mozambique’s successful return from the dark ages of the civil war. It’s a beautiful country, but one that is firmly planted in the 3rd world – this is a very poor …